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Make the folder where I dragged a bookmark appear in the recent folders list of the Add bookmark dialog (star button)

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I have some deeply nested folders in my bookmarks and sometimes I drag a page inside them instead of using the star button. Then, if I wish to add another page to that same folder, I have to go through the whole path to that folder all over again because Firefox doesn't keep it in the recent folders list in the star button. Can I "about:configure" it differently, or should I file a bug report?

I have some deeply nested folders in my bookmarks and sometimes I drag a page inside them instead of using the star button. Then, if I wish to add another page to that same folder, I have to go through the whole path to that folder all over again because Firefox doesn't keep it in the recent folders list in the star button. Can I "about:configure" it differently, or should I file a bug report?

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Firefox already having the option of recently bookmarked folder.

  • After clicking the star button
    • Click the folder menu to list the Bookmark link and recently used folder.

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I am pretty sure that the "Page Bookmarked" will only show user added folders at the top level of folders when a new Bookmark is saved.

In the past there was an extension - Add Bookmarks Here2 - that did offer offer all folders and remembered the "last saved to", but its not WE / Quantum compatible.

I'm not 100% sure because I tend to drag'n'drop ALL new bookmarks into the Bookmarks Sidebar right into to folder where I want it. And frequently I save the same new bookmark multiple times in different folders at the same time. An action that Firefox won't do - i.e., save a bookmark more than once thru the "Bookmark this page" feature; which drives me nuts. Never grasped the Tags feature for categorizing similar topic saved bookmarks.

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the-edmeister said

I am pretty sure that the "Page Bookmarked" will only show user added folders at the top level of folders when a new Bookmark is saved.

I'm not sure I got what you mean there, can you please explain it?

the-edmeister said

In the past there was an extension - Add Bookmarks Here2 - that did offer offer all folders and remembered the "last saved to", but its not WE / Quantum compatible.

I think the tool for adding bookmarks in Firefox has quite a few shortcomings when compared to Chromium's. I had read several other posts here that suggested that extension and now that it's gone it might be the right time for an overhaul of the star button functionality. The fact that it always defaults to the unsorted bookmarks and that it forgets the folders I drag bookmarks into is what bugs me the most. That I can't use it to save a bookmark in more than one folder is something that I was already used to in Google's browser, but being able to do that wouldn't be bad neither, at all. How can we lobby Firefox developers?

(I mean "lobby" very humbly, I have no idea how difficult it would be to make this overhaul. Still, I'd like to make my voice heard.)

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Fulan said

the-edmeister said
I am pretty sure that the "Page Bookmarked" will only show user added folders at the top level of folders when a new Bookmark is saved.

I'm not sure I got what you mean there, can you please explain it?

I'm not sure I can explain it any better, as I haven't really use "Bookmark this page" for a long time as I don't like the limitation that it presents. I am going by long term memory from why I don't use that feature and from the time that I did use the original Add Bookmark Here only to "lose it" after a Firefox update only to find Add Bookmark Here2 after the original developer didn't update his version. And then when the developer of Add Bookmark Here2 didn't get around to updating that one after (yet) another Firefox major update (for the 2nd time for that type of extension), I left the idea of using that type of extension behind and learned how to be satisfied sans an extension for that feature - IOW my own work-around for a deficient feature in Firefox that had been "propped up" by extensions for too long.

I just got in the habit of opening the Bookmarks Sidebar and then selecting the folder that I want to place a new bookmark in, and then drag'n'drop the Tab icon into that folder to save a new bookmark for the page that is open in that Tab. And doing it that way I can save the same bookmark multiple times in different folders one right after the other; which Firefox won't do if you use the "Bookmark this page" features in Firefox - one and that's it.

Never used Chrome long enough for me to be able to compare it with Firefox, with regards to saving of bookmarks. But that feature in Firefox has IMO "sucked" since Firefox 3.0, when "Places" was first in Firefox. Not bad enough for me to even consider switching to a different browser, but surely a deficiency in Firefox.

<rant mode on> I would forget about asking or expecting the Firefox developers "fixing" these deficiencies with Bookmarks. IMO, they have been a part of Firefox for close to 10 years now - June 17, 2008 was when Firefox 3.0 was released; and I have "suffered" with it since at least a year before that when Places was first added added to "Minefield", the development branch when Firefox 3.0 was being developed. In those days I was running the Minefield version more than I was using the Release version; lost interest once Places hit and filed a few Bug reports about it that went no where or were explained as an "intended change, look at using the Tags feature".

I quit "testing" the pre-release versions almost completely once Firefox 4.0 was released in March 2011, out of disgust for how that version turned out. Two years behind the original schedule and missing too much of what had been planned - and missing what I considered the best features that were planned for that Release. So over the course of 3 short years I "was pushed" from being an "early adopter", living on the edge of development, to a late adopter; and since like May 2015 "pushed" to almost being a "never adopter" of the latest version. My primary Firefox installation is the ESR 38.7.1 version, with it's own Profile; I do have many other versions installed - but usage with all the later versions combined is less than that of ESR 38.7.1. And should I get "caught" by an unpatched vulnerability that was patched in a more recent version of Firefox, I'll deal with it and just chalk it up to "my bad" for being a dumb-@ss. I have sure made much worse mistakes with my computers by installing so-called "free programs" that carried malware or adware; you live and learn. <rant mode off>

Even with my rants about the state of Firefox, I still consider it the best web browser out there for me; and over the last couple of years I have "tested" almost all the others out there that will run on WinXP and Win7.

<rant mode on, again> Chrome lasted 2 weeks one time and 5 weeks another - hated the Chrome updater process running whenever the PC was turned on and a Logon User Account open. Google knows enough about me from the services I use from them and the the searches I do thru Google search - I'll be damned if I let Google know that I let my PC run 24-7-365, any maybe leave a path open for some nefarious activities due to their updater feature. <rant mode off, again>

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I had used Chrome/Chromium for close to a decade and switched to Firefox a couple of months ago mostly out of curiosity and for the feel-good of it being Mozilla's browser and not a corporation's. Other than being closely tied with Google (which isn't per se a downside) Chromium doesn't have any major shortcoming in my opinion. Firefox has other qualities, but I still think I'd be more productive on Chromium, productivity being my efficiency in cataloging webpages that interest me.

the-edmeister said

I just got in the habit of opening the Bookmarks Sidebar and then selecting the folder that I want to place a new bookmark in, and then drag'n'drop the Tab icon into that folder to save a new bookmark

I do the same and it's not the comfiest of the ways to do that for sure.

I don't know if it's me being an OCD bookmarker that care so much about these features while others may not give a fuss, but I think sometimes Firefox is downright silly at this, for example when I have added a bookmark to a folder with the star button, click it again in a different page that I want to add to the same folder, see that goddamn folder's name in the Folder field, "Yes, that's it, stand still!", and in a fraction of seconds it switches to the motherflowering useless "Other bookmarks". They can throw away Other bookmarks altogether as far as I'm concerned. I think I too had entered rant mode at some point here. Over and out.