On 25/09/19 00:01, Lemuel Johnson wrote:
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It's a bit of a pain but Chris' method works for me.
As his video shows, it does work (when it does) in the limited case that
there are no "duplicate" bookmarks, although that might cover many
people's requirements. However so-called duplicate bookmarks are a
natural feature of organising bookmarks into folders since you might
want to archive some part of the bookmark hierarchy separately.
For example, I have an Ally Bank (http://www.ally.com) bookmark in my
Financial folder.
If I click on the bookmark I'm redirected to https://www.ally.com and
the default action for the bookmark icon in the location bar is Add
Bookmark.
If I edit the properties of the bookmark and change the URL to https...
then click it the bookmark icon (now with a green-ish background) opens
the Edit Bookmark dialog.
True, the Edit dialog will apply only to the bookmark clicked.
Matching http: and https: bookmarks for the same site isn't the problem
(though it could be another problem).
The OP's question asked how to match a bookmark in the Bookmarks Manager
search results to the folder containing that bookmark, since the
Bookmarks Manager search results pane (out of the box) doesn't show
where each bookmark is stored.
The proposed solution is to navigate using the bookmark item in the
search results and identify the highlighted folder in the folder
pull-down of the address bar's Edit Bookmark dialogue. One issue with
this solution is that its clunkiness echoes around the world; the second
is that it can't work if bookmark search returns duplicate bookmarks.
Suppose
- you have two bookmark folders, each recording sites used in a
particular business activity;
- both activities use Ally Bank and therefore contain a bookmark to
https://www.ally.com (which you would have if you added a bookmark after
typing http://www.ally.com in the address bar);
- like the OP you are old enough to have many other such activities and
corresponding bookmark folders;
= wishing to identify which activities use Ally Bank, you search for
'Ally' using Bookmarks Manager (the context of the OP's question).
Which folder should be highlighted after navigating to the Ally Bank
site using each of the two bookmarks shown in the search results and
opening the folder pull-down in the address bar's Edit Bookmark dialogue?
As you found with the http->https redirection, the address bar only
knows about the displayed URL and not how it got there, so the dialogue
has no way to select one folder or the other: I guess it shows whichever
it finds first?
I would report what actually happens in such a case except that I only
ever see "Other Bookmarks" highlighted, and never the user-created
bookmark folder.
/df
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