Alias
Sat Nov 13 03:18:48 CST 2004
Have you tried right clicking on the drop down bookmark menu and choosing
"sort by name"? I just did that and it sorted everything by name,
alphabetically.
Alias
"Heather" <figgs@nospam.invalid> wrote
: They won't sort properly!! And people that complain about it are having a
: hard time getting the point across. I will attempt to show you.
:
: In IE, I created several yellow folders at the top of the Favourites List,
: such as *Most Used Sites*, or *Antivirus Websites*, which have anywhere
from
: 10 to 25 links in them. Below that are the usual alphabetical links to
: websites. And I have a rather large amount of them.
:
: Firefox will NOT sort them that way. The Yellow Folders are all over the
: place in Bookmarks.....in no particular order. When you go into Manage
: Bookmarks and try to rearrange them, they look like the are in perfect
: order........but when you go back to the Bookmarks spot in the browser,
they
: are not.
:
: Hope that is clear.....often on the Forum, people who don't have this
: problem, just don't understand what we are talking about.
:
: Cheers....Heather
: "Alias" <alsoknownas@maskedandanonymous.com> wrote in message
: news:2vksguF2mfmopU1@uni-berlin.de...
: > What's the "bookmark" problem? I don't seem to have any problems with
: them.
: >
: > Alias
: >
: > "TomV" <t@nospam.net> wrote in message
: > news:uMpBn4PyEHA.3096@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
: > : Hi, Heather,
: > :
: > : I recently installed the 1.0 GA release, and prior to that I had the
1.0
: > : PR release. I didn't use any of the 0.9x releases. Fortunately, my
: > : bookmark sort wasn't affected in the update. I had used the bookmark
: > : sort plugin that we talked about a while ago. I've not tried to
install
: > : the plugin using the technique to get it to install in the 1.0 PR.
: > :
: > : The update was very transparent. In reading the release notes, there
: > : are a number of "under the hood" fixes. I would recommend the 1.0 GA
: > : (non-beta) release over any of the previous versions. It's very
stable,
: > : and I like a number of the features that it offers. I rarely use IE
: > : anymore. But for the occasional site that requires IE, there is also
a
: > : plugin that allows you to open the link in IE. The plugin adds a
: > : command to the context menu in Firefox, when you right-click on a
link,
: > : giving you the option to open the link in IE. And, of course, you'll
: > : need IE for the Windows Update site.
: > :
: > : I'll look into the bookmarks issue. I recall in the release notes a
: > : mention of a fix to the bookmarks. I thought it corrected the sort
: > : problem, but perhaps not from what you're seeing from the complaints
on
: > : the forum.
: > :
: > : HTH.
: > :
: > : Regards,
: > : Tom
: > :
: > : Heather wrote:
: > : > Hi Tom......
: > : >
: > : > I downloaded the now non-beta Firefox 1.0, but am still wavering
: because
: > I
: > : > see on their Forum that they never fixed the Bookmark problem.
: > : >
: > : > I also have two older versions here that are unopened......9.2 and
: 9.3.
: > How
: > : > do they stack up against the new 1.0??
: > : >
: > : > Naturally all you are going to see are complaints on a forum.....so
: > thought
: > : > I would ask you before I install one of the above. I did find one
: > *solve*
: > : > to the bookmark problem via the forum and could use that if I run
into
: > the
: > : > same problem......which I see is bound to happen.
: > : >
: > : > Cheers....Heather
: > : >
: > : >
: >
: >
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