When I click on a bookmark, I expect it to open in a new tab - NOT in the bookmarks side-bar!
Whether I click on the bookmark in the drop-down menu, the toolbar or the sidebar, FF v29.0.1 has just decided to open the page in the left-hand third of the window. I can delete it or make it smaller but not bigger. The rest of the window remains showing the home page. How can I force FF to show the webpage in the correct part of the window.
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Opening in the sidebar is the default for bookmarks that are created via a link or button on a website.
You can check the properties of a bookmark via the right-click context menu in the sidebar (Ctrl+B; Command+B on Mac).
In the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks > Show All Bookmarks) you can click the More button in the Details pane at the bottom right.
Make sure that "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" is not selected.
Thank you very much for that, but . . . .
It wasn't very long ago when I used the side-bar constantly and it never opened a webpage in that narrow strip. So why the change?
Now you expect me to go through every one of hundreds of bookmarks to untick those boxes? Surely there must be another way to stop this ridiculous setting?
Is this about a bookmarked page that opens in the sidebar or do you get the bookmarks list where you select the bookmark showing differently then you used to?
I can't think of a reason why all bookmarks would suddenly open in the sidebar when they previously didn't do this.
You can try to export the Bookmarks to an HTML file and search this file for occurrences of the WEB_PANEL with a text editor and remove this attribute.
You likely need to remove duplicates when you import this modified HTML file.
- Bookmark Deduplicator: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bookmark-deduplicator/
This is all about a bookmarked page that opens in the sidebar.
All my bookmarks were created using the 'star' on FF's Toolbar. I can't remember any instance of a bookmark being created using a link or button on the website itself.
Your suggestion, to remove the "Load this bookmark in the sidebar" property using an HTML file, is intriguing and complicated but I will persevere and try it out sometime. I do not have that time now but I will come back if I am not successful.
Thanks for your time and suggestions.
You can at least you this method to see if there are any bookmarks that have the WEB_PANEL attribute or if something else is wrong.
Did you right-click such a bookmark and checked its Properties to see if there is a checkmark in that box?
"Now you expect me to go through every one of hundreds of bookmarks to untick those boxes?"
You only need to "fix" the bookmarks that open in the Sidebar.
If you have "hundreds" that do open in the Sidebar and they didn't with an earlier version of Firefox, you got something else going there; using the features that are built into Firefox, such as the "Star", to save a new bookmark don't "tick" that feature box.