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How can I change the name of a bookmark?

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ezlivin04
ezlivin04

Unlike MS Explorer, when I right click on a bookmark, there is no option to change the name of a bookmark. Is there any other way to make a name change?

Unlike MS Explorer, when I right click on a bookmark, there is no option to change the name of a bookmark. Is there any other way to make a name change?

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  • You can change the Properties (including the name) of a Bookmark or Tag in the Details (Properties) pane at the bottom of the right pane in the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks: Shift+Ctrl+B) after selecting an item. You can rename a tag by selecting the Tags folder in the left panel and change the name in the Info pane at the bottom right.
  • You can make changes to a Bookmark in the Bookmarks menu drop down list or in the side bar (View > Sidebar > Bookmarks, Ctrl+B) via the Properties entry in the right-click context menu.
  • You can open a bookmark in a tab and click the yellow (blue on Mac) star in the location bar to open the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog and see in which folder a bookmark is located.
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the-edmeister
the-edmeister

Right-click and open Properties.

cor-el
cor-el
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Chosen Solution

  • You can change the Properties (including the name) of a Bookmark or Tag in the Details (Properties) pane at the bottom of the right pane in the Bookmarks Manager (Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks: Shift+Ctrl+B) after selecting an item. You can rename a tag by selecting the Tags folder in the left panel and change the name in the Info pane at the bottom right.
  • You can make changes to a Bookmark in the Bookmarks menu drop down list or in the side bar (View > Sidebar > Bookmarks, Ctrl+B) via the Properties entry in the right-click context menu.
  • You can open a bookmark in a tab and click the yellow (blue on Mac) star in the location bar to open the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog and see in which folder a bookmark is located.
Mozilla
Mozilla

Please see my reply to Corel. The Tab will NOT display the Name applied directly on the Tab, although an applied name does appear when selecting the "star" on the Location bar.

"You can open a bookmark in a tab and click the yellow (blue on Mac) star in the location bar to open the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog and see in which folder a bookmark is located."

Mozilla
Mozilla

Hi Corel,

I’ve found that there is an exception to your advice, and it seems to occur at a specific website. This particular website would not allow anything other than the URL to appear on a Tab if the URL was opened. Naming the URL to something more memorable still only showed the Location on the Tab.

I finally suspected that the source for this was at the website, so I put together an email and contacted the website’s design contractor. Today, instead of the URL Location showing on the Tab the Website design contractor (?) has placed their own Name, which cannot be altered by Firefox.

Is this an issue that can be changed by Firefox programmers to allow Firefox users to apply their own name, which should also appear on the Tab? Or are we stuck with the website designer’s (?) Name on the Tab? When a number of Tabs are showing it becomes more difficult to know what the Tab represents without also picking the Star on the Location bar.

Please give enough detail in your response so it can be understood by us non-techies.

I did send a previous email (yesterday) about this issue to Firefox and provided a Location. So maybe I’m wrong about the source of the changed URL because in reality it was done by Firefox. Could Firefox have applied a unique Name to the Location I provided, and therefore could it be that it was Firefox, and not the website designer, that applied a Name to the Location? Whatever the source, this appears to be an exception to your advice.

cor-el
cor-el
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Sounds that the page is overriding the title or sets the title to an empty string.

Can you post a link to that website or part of the page code with the <HEAD> section showing the <TITLE> tag?

Mozilla
Mozilla

I've contacted the web designer listed at the bottom of the company's webpage. This is definitely a problem they've created and need to fix. They have an unusual website that has a links that flow across the page embedded in pictorials. I was only interested in one item in the pictorial to save to bookmarks, and believe that is where the problem lies. They got a bit fancy with their web design and didn't follow through with it.

Thanks for your response.