OK; have seen various comments concerning extra-large bookmarks and
have the following "solution" suggestion (or at least a start in that
direction).
Notice that WinDoze has various options for viewing a drive or
folder; relevant ones are List and Details.
Theseo NEVER eat more than the space of one screen; they "gracefully" scroll.
For some (like me), there would be a problem in that those are
ALPHABETICALLY SORTED lists; the "good" part is that one can "jump" to
a list group or name by typing in a "search term".
So, to keep both user types happy, keep the lists in USER ORDER and
have the "search term" act like a filter that would display only
matching items.
As the search term is typed, less and less matching items would be seen.
Quoting Desiree <[email protected]>:
"Daniel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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"Paul B. Gallagher"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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"Paul B. Gallagher"<[email protected]> wrote in message
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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.
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