Mozilla Bookmark Hackery

A recent discussion about managing internet browsing (and information overload in general) got me playing around with Mozilla bookmarks. I discovered that, if you’re running Mozilla Firebird, you can have your bookmarks show up in your browsing window rather than a popup window or a side-panel–a la Safari.

Bookmark Panel (pretty cool):

   chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksPanel.xul

Bookmarks Manager (somewhat less cool):

   chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarksManager.xul

By the way, you need to cut and paste these URLs into the browser for (I assume) security reasons.

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5 Responses to Mozilla Bookmark Hackery

  1. Jai says:

    Um, ok. I’m not sure I personally understand how that’s better than the “bookmarks” menu at the top of the browser window, but if it helps you with your info, go for it!

  2. Russell says:

    Hey dude,

    Cute dog you got there. I find your programming hints to be very applicable to my music-centered existence. Bookmarks rock my world. Also please tell me the name of that website you said I should check out. Something humorous with different characters and such…

  3. Ken says:

    Russ! Hey! :)
    re: “I find your programming hints to be very applicable to my music-centered existence.”

    Well, if that’s the case, you’ll have to check out the coolest browser in the whole wide world: http://seb.mozdev.org/firebird/

    re: “Also please tell me the name of that website you said I should check out.”

    That would be Homestarrunnner.com: http://www.homestarrunner.com/

    Hours of fun for the whole family. ;-)

  4. yan says:

    OK- Mozilla is great and all but I have some html problems with it. I have a simple peice of code that will open the IE “favorites window” allowing a bookmark to be put in by a link on my page. How do I do that with netscape/ Mozilla?

    I’ve looked a a million website and cant find the info