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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 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html