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Firefox's bookmarking system is actually one of the things I hate most about it, compared to Opera. In Opera you can right click a link and then select the exa

by gnosis 14y ago

Firefox's bookmarking system is actually one of the things I hate most about it, compared to Opera. In Opera you can right click a link and then select the exact place in the bookmark heirarchy to place it in. In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go. Opera's bookmark manager is also just much nicer, more powerful, and more intuitive than Firefox's. Unfortunately, Opera is closed-source software, and has been moving in anti-privacy directions I don't like, so I still use Firefox. But in many ways, Opera is a far superior browser.

skrause 14y ago
In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go. In Firefox you can click the star in the URL bar to set a bookbar. When you click the star for a second time immediately, you can select where in the bookmark hierarchy it should go without opening the bookmark manager at all. You can also just drag&drop the tab title to the right location in the bookmarks toolbar and it will create a bookmark there.
belorn 14y ago
No? You right click, and get a menu for placing the bookmark in the folder of your choice, or you drag the bookmark to the bookmark toolbar. Or are you talking about in which order a bookmark is placed inside a folder, accessed from the first bookmark setup window? I am quite sure there is a add-on that do exactly this.
Ziomislaw 14y ago
I totally hate Opera bookmarks, they are completly unintuitive. Each bookmark can be displayed/removed from the bar without any concern about which directory it is in. You'll end up with one folder of bookmarks that should be displayed on bookmark bar and a few of them will be 'lost' (not really shown).
derleth 14y ago
In Firefox, I right-click to bookmark the page, and then a little drop-down from the right side of the address bar allows me to modify the bookmark or cancel the whole thing. The main thing I do in this context is edit the tags. I like Firefox's tagged bookmarks. I love how it's not slow anymore, and how I can browse by tag in the main bookmarks window I get through Ctrl+Shift+O. But I'm using the MicroFox theme, which pretty much completely changes how Firefox looks. Nobody that I know of in the browser world does themes like Mozilla does for Firefox. Chrome doesn't even come close, and I don't remember Opera offering much beyond palette swaps, either. I have MicroFox and Status-4-Evar and a number of other Add-Ons that combine to give me the browser I want. I can do that with Firefox and with no other browser I know of. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/microfox-for-firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/microfox-for-... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...
StavrosK 14y ago
Which anti-privacy directions did Opera go in?
blaabjerg 14y ago
Honestly I think the entire notion of a fixed bookmark hierarchy is outdated. I'm an avid Opera fan, but I can't fathom by it doesn't support bookmark tagging yet. It's just a much more fitting model of how I archive documents (many-to-one relationships?).

by gnosis 14y ago

skrause 14y ago

In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go. In Firefox you can click the star in the URL bar to set a bookbar. When you click the star for a second time immediately, you can select where in the bookmark hierarchy it should go without opening the bookmark manager at all. You can also just drag&drop the tab title to the right location in the bookmarks toolbar and it will create a bookmark there.

belorn 14y ago

No? You right click, and get a menu for placing the bookmark in the folder of your choice, or you drag the bookmark to the bookmark toolbar. Or are you talking about in which order a bookmark is placed inside a folder, accessed from the first bookmark setup window? I am quite sure there is a add-on that do exactly this.

Ziomislaw 14y ago

I totally hate Opera bookmarks, they are completly unintuitive. Each bookmark can be displayed/removed from the bar without any concern about which directory it is in. You'll end up with one folder of bookmarks that should be displayed on bookmark bar and a few of them will be 'lost' (not really shown).

derleth 14y ago

In Firefox, I right-click to bookmark the page, and then a little drop-down from the right side of the address bar allows me to modify the bookmark or cancel the whole thing. The main thing I do in this context is edit the tags. I like Firefox's tagged bookmarks. I love how it's not slow anymore, and how I can browse by tag in the main bookmarks window I get through Ctrl+Shift+O. But I'm using the MicroFox theme, which pretty much completely changes how Firefox looks. Nobody that I know of in the browser world does themes like Mozilla does for Firefox. Chrome doesn't even come close, and I don't remember Opera offering much beyond palette swaps, either. I have MicroFox and Status-4-Evar and a number of other Add-Ons that combine to give me the browser I want. I can do that with Firefox and with no other browser I know of. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/microfox-for-firefox/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/microfox-for-... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...

StavrosK 14y ago

Which anti-privacy directions did Opera go in?

blaabjerg 14y ago

Honestly I think the entire notion of a fixed bookmark hierarchy is outdated. I'm an avid Opera fan, but I can't fathom by it doesn't support bookmark tagging yet. It's just a much more fitting model of how I archive documents (many-to-one relationships?).