I don't think I understand the problem. Normally you open a bookmark folder (display its contents) by clicking it. Is that not working for you?? Or what did the old command do that I don't remember?

Thank you for the prompt answer. You certainly are one of the top ten contributors!

What you describe as opening a bookmark folder to display its contents by clicking it is probably not what I would describe as opening it. I take it we are talking about the folder icons visible on the bookmarks toolbar, which I have checked to be displayed (I don’t have the menu bar checked, but when I press Alt to display it the behaviour of the Bookmarks pulldown on that is the same). If you click those icons you get a popup lists of the contents and subfolders, which I am too palsied to use without falling off the edges all the time or slithering into other folders, and as I say the context menu item to Open All in Tabs is absurd, unless you have everything in tiny groups in a more horrendous number of folders even than me.

There is also of course the bookmarks sidebar, which at least leaves the contents displayed when you click, but the behaviour of that is very bizarre and I dislike sidebars too much to have the time or patience to work it out every time. Anyway looking at it again today has confirmed my belief that you can't do much with it. One annoyance is that it seems the only way to focus links without actually opening them in the current tab, which is the default, or remembering to open them in a new tab, is to use the arrow keys. Otherwise you find you have dragged the containing folder instead of the link you were trying to move.

The old command I was referring to was Open Folder on the context menu of all these bookmarks folders, which opened the folder in Library or whatever it was called at the time. Or perhaps it just opened it in an interface similar to that.

Hi ffoxed, I think the "Open Folder" command you used before was something added by an add-on. Current add-ons can't open the Library window to a specified point, but they could show the folder contents in a panel that drops from the toolbar, or in its own tab.

To select a link on a drop-down menu without clicking it, after clicking the folder to display its contents, you can use the down arrow to move down the list (up arrow to move up the list). The Enter key would then open the selected bookmark in the current tab, and Ctrl+Enter would open the bookmark in a new tab.

That might not appeal to you if you never use keyboard navigation, but until something else comes along, maybe it will help.

Thank you again, jscher. Yes that's the sort of behaviour I was talking about when I wrote of the bookmarks sidebar "the only way to focus links without actually opening them in the current tab, which is the default, or remembering to open them in a new tab, is to use the arrow keys. Otherwise you find you have dragged the containing folder instead of the link you were trying to move."

And I do often use Ctrl+Enter and Ctrl+click when I'm too palsied to do a double click. This palsy I so tediously refer to is arthritis, and my programmable mouse and keyboard have just died, which is why I'm importuning you about this, but it would take MS to do something about more customization for arthritics than they currently offer. On the other hand you are so knowledgeable that you may be able to suggest other brands of programmable mouse and keyboard than the Silvercrest I was using, which was more versatile than anything I have been able to search online, but is no longer available. Or would that be a gross breach of protocol?

At least with your suggestion you don't find you have dragged the containing folder instead of the link you were trying to move, but of course the folder contents don't remain displayed as in the sidebar and you still can't do much with anything as long as drop-downs pop in and out of existence as they do.

Which current add-ons were you thinking of when you wrote the above? They might be tweakable. And it's worth knowing that as thing are there's no point in constantly searching for them from a Ff search box that doesn't have any advanced search facility and just throws everything at you.