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.

5 thoughts on “Mozilla Bookmark Hackery

  1. 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. 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. 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. 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