"Daniel" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Desiree wrote: >> "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 >> >> > > Desiree, I would agree with you that it would be nice if there were > columns available in the bookmarks screen (I'm getting close to full > screen length on a couple of my folders!!) > > I'll ask the next, logical, question, though......What happens when the > columns are created ....... and we fill the screen with columns?? Buy > wider screens?? Install second/third/etc. screens?? > > -- > Daniel
You just get columns on top of columns once the screen is full of columns. It works beautifully in Opera where this setup is native to the browser. In Fx where the extension MultiColumns is needed it works less well (at least on Fx 4.01). I was surprised that after I installed Fx 10 Enterprise on a virtual machine recently that this extension not only installed (even though it has not been updated since June 22, 2011) but actually works better on Fx 10 even though it lacks recent updates. One reason I have not installed Fx 10 Enterprise on my host machine is because I figured this extension would not work yet it turns out to work better, more smoothly on Fx 10. I don't have a ton of bookmarks though on Fx on the virtual machine so I can't say for sure how columns on top of columns once the screen is filled with columns will work but I suspect just fine. Actually, this might be one instance where a wide screen 24" or so monitor would be good. I have a 19" 5:4 monitor so it can't get one layer of that many columns (of course the number also depends on font size). Actually, filling the screen with columns and then having the next ones on top of the first set is ok. On Fx4, I run into sometimes clicking on a folder in a column to have the bookmarks then display up high or down low on the page instead of immediately opposite the folder. When they display too low or high I have problems clicking on one because when I move the mouse to reach the display it disappears. I think that doesn't happen on Fx 10, but I can't recall for sure, and I don't have that machine running now to check. Also, the columns on Fx4 tend to not be cut off at bottom of the screen but go below it so I have to scroll a bit, not much just a bit, to reach the ones I can't see. I think I didn't see that problem in Fx 10 either. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
