8 Add-ons That Enhance Firefox Bookmarks Management
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How to Enhance Firefox Bookmarks Management
We love Firefox, though it is not perfect. And what in this world is? Fortunately some guys never stop developing add-ons to make our experience with bookmarks management full.
Here is a short guide to top Firefox bookmarks extensions. They were selected basing both on experts' assessments and users' comments.
Here is a short guide to top Firefox bookmarks extensions. They were selected basing both on experts' assessments and users' comments.
SortPlaces
A comprehensive extension for sorting Firefox bookmarks both manually and automatically. Provides various sorting options for Toolbar, Menu and Unfiled bookmarks respectively. Two-levels sorting (including folders order, queries, livemarks, etc) can be applied for every. A special function keeps selected links from sorting.
Spanish and Ukrainian locales are now available. Plus an option to hide the status bar icon, if you hate it.
SortPlaces homepage
Spanish and Ukrainian locales are now available. Plus an option to hide the status bar icon, if you hate it.
SortPlaces homepage
Tidy Favorites
A smart extension for Firefox bookmarks successfully focusing on visual approach. Leave text links behind - welcome screenshot images of your favorite web-sites. Any part of the site can be cut as thumbnail. The images are easily resized and managed in one mouse click.Sorting area for temporarily links is available. All bookmarks are kept safe in a centralized database and can be synchronize between all major browsers: IE, Chrome and Opera. Portable version on a flash drive is provided.
TidyFavorites homepage
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Video Bookmarks
Crazy application for video maniacs from myVidster. A social bookmarking and backup web service for searching, saving, managing and sharing videos from any video source.Video clips can be downloaded from thousands of video hosts (Youtube, blip.tv, Veoh, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc), websites or blogs. The user can easily create favorite videos collection, keep it on the server safely and share with community.
MyVidster homepage
Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar
Forget about nightmare of guessing sites names from one letter left. Now all tabs are vividly displayed. Yet the number of rows is limited.
Multirow Bookmarks homepage
Smart Bookmarks Bar
This add-on offers another neat way to solve the problem with the lack of space on your firefox bookmarks bar. All the sites are hiding under icons, their names appear on top when you point the mouse to the one needed. One can pack a lot there, and toolbar still looks rather optimistic.
Smart Bookmarks Bar homepage
Smart Bookmarks Bar homepage
Bookmark Duplicate Detector
As one can guess from the name this add-on finds duplicate Firefox bookmarks when new ones are added. It also informs you where the previous link is located. You are to decide their future either having them as clones or deleting whatsoever.The tool also allows finding and managing duplicates among already saved URLs.
Bookmark Duplicate Detector homepage
Hide Unvisited Bookmarks
A practical application to keep your address bar clean from links of the pages you stopped visiting. Hides firefox bookmarks of web-sites suffered from deleting or clearing history. It is intended mostly for users who appreciate "nothing extra" approach to AwesomeBar. Already upgraded to Firefox version 3.5.
Hide Unvisited homepage
Hide Unvisited homepage
GMarks
A handy tool to synchronize your own links with Google Bookmarks, allowing their swift transition from Firefox to Google and vice versa. The program is totally independent from Firefox bookmarks but is treating them nicely: never hiding or losing any.
Filters add labels and descriptions to new bookmarks. Links are easily edited and organized.
GMarks homepage
Filters add labels and descriptions to new bookmarks. Links are easily edited and organized.
GMarks homepage
To conclude:
As you see, web is a wonderful place to get user-friendly tools for various challenges. If you find none appropriate, share your complaints with blogosphere. And some day someone will certainly help you with a new add-on for Firefox bookmarks.
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christinsword
Apr 1, 2012 @ 11:41 pm | delete
- I've read that while bookmarks still play a part in Google's ranking algorithm, they have been decreased somewhat in importance in favor of article marketing, guest blogging, and content marketing. Still worth a shot, though.
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BloodStack1971
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- Its good to read this lense.Thanks for sharing it.
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laef
Apr 20, 2011 @ 6:10 pm | delete
- Nice list, I was always fascinated by firefox because of the great add-ons you can add. nice lens, I like it..
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developdesignlifecycle
Apr 3, 2010 @ 2:46 am | delete
- Thanks for the information about bookmark management.
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