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Re: [LUG] Bookmarks and browsers

 

On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:01 +0000, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> On 12/1/06, Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In Firefox there is a small difference. I go to Bookmarks > Organise
> > bookmarks. Here I see them already listed. I choose View from the menu
> > and see a list of choices about what order I should see them in. There
> > is a list of options eg. by name, by location etc.
> >
> > I choose Sorted by Name and indeed I now see the list in order. So I
> > close the window. But this time when I click on Bookmarks in the menu I
> > no longer see them in the new order. They are still showing in the
> > order in which I first added them.
> >
> > Why are they not showing sorted by name? When I go back to Bookmarks >
> > Organise bookmarks I again see them in name order. But close the window
> > and click on Bookmarks and they are back in the order as I added them.
> >
> > At the moment I have not added many of my bookmarks but the time will
> > come when the list will be long. It is so much easier to find a
> > bookmark if they are in order.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong, or perhaps not doing right? Can anyone help me
> > please?
> 
> The various options in the View menu do not change the order of the
> bookmarks, they only change the order as shown in the Organise
> Bookmarks-window.
> If you want to sort the bookmarks alphabetically, go to Organise
> Bookmarks, then right-click on any bookmark or bookmark-folder and
> everything within the same layer will be sorted alphabetically. That's
> all. It means that, if you use lots of sub folders, you'll have to do
> this for every sub folder. (But then, there might be some geek who
> wrote a Firefox extension that does that for you.)
> I hope this helps.
> 
> I'm new here, by the way. Though I'd say hello. Hello. I recently
> moved to Exmouth, Devon from the Netherlands and stumbled upon this
> group the other day. It's nice. My proper computer is still back home
> in the Netherlands, which means I'm currently living without Linux,
> but I can't wait for the day that I can work with a proper OS. It
> might be true that "W" has improved a lot over the years -I have never
> had it installed on my computer before- it's still miles and miles
> behind. And not just from an open source point of view.
> 
> Martijn
> 
> -- 
> www.thinksmall.nl
> 
Hi Martijn - welcome to Devon and the group. Best short term solution is
a pen drive installed with DSL. Then you only need to use your Windows
machine to boot up Linux !

Viv

Viv


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