"Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Desiree wrote: > >> "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 presumptuous as to assume that I have no >> folders for bookmarks? Geez. > > Uh, because you said so? What did you mean by this? > > "... except on SM it is one extremely long Unmanageable column." > > On my machine, if I classify bookmarks into folders, then I have a > reasonably short list of folders, each of which opens to a reasonably > short list of bookmarks when I mouse over it. If that were your situation, > why would you describe it this way?
Err...because I have HUNDREDS of folders? About 50 per column and subfolders inside some folders some with with hundreds of bookmarks. I also have some bookmarks that simply don't fit into any folder so they are "loose" ones. Actually, I have found that the best way to find a bookmark, if you can remember any part of it, is to type a few words in the address bar. The folders are for when you can't recall anything to type to trigger Fx or SM bookmark and history search. My SM history goes back to 2009 but there is a gap of about 1.5 years (2010) when I didn't use SM. My Fx 4 history has every page visited since I installed 4.0 a year ago (I installed it in a separate folder or it would have even more history if I had upgraded on top of my 1.5 version which I probably could not have done anyway as too large a leap between versions). So, the easiest way to find a bookmark, or visited page, is to type a few words that describe it in the address bar. Thus, I don't use bookmarks per se today nearly as much as I did before Mozilla so greatly increased history storage and made it an automatic calculation. But I still am irritated by SM having one very long Bookmarks column instead of multicolumns when I do want to use bookmarks to find a bookmark. > 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
