On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 19:58:40 UTC, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikus Grinbergs) said:
> 
> >In my post I was talking about "frequently accessed bookmarks" rather
> >than about "how to have the same site in more than one bookmark
> >folder".
> 
> I think we're talking about the nearly same thing.  I have a set of
> frequently accessed bookmarks at the top too.  And I also sometimes want
> a copy of the same thing down somewhere in a folder.  Plus I always have
> a bunch of stuff at the bottom that I haven't put anywhere special yet. 
> In Netscape, if I am looking at one of the sites and decide I wanted a
> copy of it somewhere, I do a save and put the second copy somewhere
> else.  Mozilla apparently has new code that says you aren't supposed to
> do that.  As well as preventing how you operated in Netscape (done in
> many different places), it's weird that you can copy an extra one but
> you can't save an extra one.
> 

Jim,

I've been reading this  thread, and, not worrying to much about it, 
but, today I decided to try what you are talking about.  Here's what I
tried:

- Went to a page I knew I had bookmarked and pressed CTRL-D.  A new 
bookmark was added to the end of the list of bookmarks.  The original 
one was untouched.

- Selected the bookmark and used the menus to copy it.  Then I chose a
bookmark folder, and used paste to put it there.  A new bookmark was 
created.  Neither the original, or the one I added above, was affected
by this.

- When I opened the properties of one of these bookmarks and changed 
it in some way, they were all changed.

- I went back to the first page, and bookmarked it again with CTRL-D. 
I checked it was there on the end of list of new bookmarks.  Then I 
tried to bookmark it again, and, it wasn't added.

- The last test was to use the "File Bookmark".  I selected a folder 
to put it in.  Then I went to the bookmark manager and moved it from 
the bottom of the bookmarks in that folder, to the first.  Then I 
closed the bookmarks, and did the "File Bookmark" to the same folder. 
When I looked at the bookmarks, there was one copy, at the bottom.

Now, what I conclude from this, is:

1) Mozilla pays attention to the URLs in your bookmarks

2) Mozilla will only allow one bookmark for a URL in a folder.  Any 
attempt to add another for the URL, will update the original.

3) If you have more than one bookmark for a URL (in different 
folders), modifying one in some way, will modify the other copies.

None of this is the behaviour I expected, and, I can see an argument 
against it, but, I think it is good.

Also, this has prompted me to create a "New Bookmarks" folder and set 
it as the "New Bookmark Folder".  Much neater than adding them to the 
end of the main bookmarks.


-- 
David Forrester
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http://www.os2world.com/djfos2

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