"Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Desiree wrote: > >> I'm curious. Do you have many bookmarks? I never use Bookmarks in SM >> from drop down. I have a lot and no way I can access them from drop >> down. With Fx, I have an extension, Multicolumn Bookmarks, that makes >> bookmarks from drop down just like the vastly superior bookmarks in >> Opera. But that extension doesn't work on SM so I always click on >> Manage Bookmarks if I need a bookmark (or I just rely on the address >> bar to show me the bookmark in drop down menu after I type the first >> few letters). The extremely poor bookmarks in SM is barrier to my >> using it as my default browser. I wouldn't be using Fx as my default >> browser without Multicolumn Bookmarks. I have 8 columns of bookmarks >> on Fx and the same on SM except on SM it is one extremely long >> Unmanageable column. > > The reason it's one long unmanageable column is that you haven't organized > it into folders. You can't just throw everything into "Bookmarks" and > expect to make sense of it. Whenever you save a bookmark, you have to > classify it or you'll never find it.
Why in the world would you be so presumptious as to assume that I have no folders for bookmarks? Geez. So for > example, I have: > > Search Engines > Glossaries > Politics > Website and Ecommerce [stuff relating to my website] > Business [stuff relating to my business except the above] > Companies [stuff relating to other companies] > Computing > Personal > > and several others. When I mouse over any of these entries in the browser, > they expand to show the subentries, which I can choose just like I do with > the Windows Start menu. Well, of course. I have only been using SM since it was Mozilla back in 2001 and Netscape before that. I have thousands of bookmarks sorted into hundreds of folders and subfolders. One, long totally unwieldy, unusuable column is absurd. One reason Mozilla is losing users to Chrome is because it has multicolumns for bookmarks built in just as Opera has always had. Both browsers handle bookmarks in a far superior manner to Fx and SM. At least, Fx does have one extension to help with its problem but multicolumn bookmarks should be built into Fx and SM and SM has NOTHING to help with the problem. > > I will grant you, though, that it's not as convenient to classify > bookmarks on the fly as it could be, and creating new folders could be > easier. For example, I'd love to have a context-menu option where I could > select several bookmarks and say "Put in new folder named..." I agree completely. The add bookmark function in SM and Fx is awful and was made worse, instead of better, beginning with Fx4 a year ago. That cramped little box you get for adding a bookmark is backward and stupid. Plus, if you only use the address bar for searching and eliminate the Search bar then that box for adding a bookmark when you right click on a web page drops down from the far right sid of screen with part of it off screen and it cannot be moved. It is in a better position on the screen if you reinstate the search bar even if you never use it. Bookmarks have always been half baked in Fx and SM/Mozilla. At least before Fx4 (don't recall what version of SM), Bookmarks drop down was from Bookmarks on the Menu bar so in a much better place on the screen and was LARGE to work in. Now you get on both browsers a stingy, tiny window that is hard to work in and displays half off screen if you get rid of the search bar. I can bookmark all tabs at once in Fx but that is through an extension always available on Mozilla browser (first extension ever on Mozilla or Firebird) but not available on SM. I can't though choose which tabs to bookmark unless I drag and group them and I am too lazy for that so I'd like what you mentioned. > > -- > War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left. > -- > Paul B. Gallagher > _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
