Firefox Bookmarks Menu: How to Remove Unnecessary Items

Hello to all blog readers. Setting up the Mozilla browser Already described on this blog. Today I want to show a few more useful settings who will do surfing the Internet This wonderful browser makes it even more comfortable.

Setting up the Firefox Internet browser

You can download the latest version of the browser here. If you have already installed this browser before, then I advise you to save all settings, passwords, add-ons and bookmarks using the MozBackup utility ( this is for every fireman, as they say). The backup of the fourth version integrates perfectly into the fifth, except that some additions may not be suitable. But this is a matter of time, because updates will soon be released for many plugins. You can also save bookmarks and passwords on the Sync server . In general, when checking for updates, the four is perfectly updated to the fifth. All you have to do is go to the Help menu - About Firefox, and there it will find the update itself, just agree to update and that’s it. About the basics your browser settings read, well, today we will look at the following:

1. How do firefox browser default
2. Where are they stored? passwords in Mozilla Firefox
3. Firefox Bookmarks Bar

Mozilla default browser

It happens that after installing Mozilla, users, either accidentally or deliberately, refuse to make it their default browser. The selection is made in this window (see below) upon first launch. If you uncheck the box and click on the No button, then another browser will be launched by default, for example IE.

And then they think, how is it possible? make Mazila the default browser??? I also fell for this bait at the very beginning of my acquaintance with this amazing program. So I’m sharing a secret

Go to the menu Tools - Settings

Then in the settings window, Advanced - click Check now. We agree to the request. Everything now the fox has become the default browser.

Passwords in Mozilla

There is another one in this browser useful feature is saving passwords. It is useful because on the site or forum where we registered, we do not need to enter our username and password every time. Just click the mouse in the input field, and the login and password for this site will be entered automatically.

It happens that several accounts are created for the same site, and then these accounts are not used. This is where the search problems begin. the required login in the drop-down list. Sometimes it's very annoying. Or you just need to find out the password, but forgot to write it down on the sheet. So, to solve such problems in the settings, go to Security - Passwords - click Saved passwords ( When you enter a new password, the browser prompts you to save it). In the window that opens, you can delete unused logins and passwords.

But despite such pleasant convenience, you need to take care of proper protection of your computer. The point is that Trojans have the ability to steal passwords that are stored in this list. Personally, I don’t save passwords for Yandex wallet and WebMoney at all, but enter them manually. By the way, so as not to bother with saving passwords, there is a wonderful program

Firefox bookmarks are a web link to your favorite/frequently visited web page. Using bookmarks, you can navigate between your favorite websites in one click. If you haven’t had time to finish reading the news on some Internet resource, then by adding it to your bookmarks, you can easily return to it at any time. Bookmarks are convenient because you don’t need to remember the exact name of the site, type it into the search bar every time and look for it in a huge list of similar ones. By launching an Internet browser, you can instantly get to the required page, provided that it has already been previously added to the useful notes section.

How to save bookmarks in Mozilla

The process of saving footnotes to necessary internet portals are carried out by one click on the icon in the shape of a five-pointed star in the menu quick access or the combination of buttons on the keyboard “Ctrl + D”. By default, it is without fill, but if the page is in saved bookmarks, then it changes its color to blue.

By clicking the save icon, the user can change the name of their note and also change the save directory. This menu also includes reverse action– deleting an unnecessary note.

You can view saved bookmarks by clicking on the following icon or “Ctrl+Shift+B”.

To save Internet bookmarks from the Mozilla web search engine to personal computer, you need to perform an export operation. You can find out how to do it by reading the article “”. This article also describes how to restore bookmarks in Mozilla.

Where are bookmarks stored in Mozilla Firefox?

All actions regarding changes Firefox web browser, such as: installing plugins, saving user personal data and adding bookmarks, are saved in a service folder called “Profile”. This folder is saved separately from the main search engine documents; this is done for reliability so that the user does not lose their data when deleting or reinstalling the browser.

To find your profile you need the following:

• Launch the Internet browser Mozilla Firefox;
• Open engineering menu browser;
• Click on the icon located at the very bottom of the menu window with the image of a question mark.

The help menu opens. Here we select the “Problem Solving Information” option.

Then it opens for you new page entitled "Problem Solving Information". Here, in the application data, you need to find the “Profile Folder” item, opposite this item, select the button to open the folder.

In the folder that opens, containing the current changes made by the user in the Mozilla search engine.

Another way to get to this folder without launching a web browser is as follows.

To do this in Windows menu you need to click the “Start” button and in the search window enter the path to the folder “%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\” Next, select the very first folder with the English word “default”.

You will see the same folder that you opened through the browser.

Be extremely careful when manipulating information in this folder. Since carelessly deleting some objects can ruin performance search engine Firefox and permanently lose some important data.

Instructions

Run Mozilla browser Firefox - you will already have at least one tab open. At your choice, this tab can be an empty white form, or a web page designated as your home page, or even several pages at once - then when you start the browser, the corresponding number of tabs will open. In addition, it is possible to set as home page(new tab) express panel with visual bookmarks. So first analyze your situation and decide which one possible options the settings for you will be most preferable.

Don't leave a blank tab as your start page if you intend to visit very often. large number the same URLs. Indeed, in this case, to go to your favorite sites, you will have to type these URLs manually each time, or look for the necessary links in bookmarks and a magazine, or even use a web search. It is much more advisable to in this case will set as the start page (new tab) the express panel developed for Mozilla Firefox. More detailed information For existing modifications of express panels (user reviews, tips on installation and settings), search the Internet.

Do not waste your time and computer resources on installing, configuring and operating an express panel with numerous visual bookmarks if you regularly visit only a couple of sites on the Internet. In this case, it is better to designate them as home pages. When you start the browser and/or when you click on the “Home” button, they will all open at once - each site in a separate tab, and rare transitions to other links can be done with blank page using ordinary means.

Make the necessary changes to Mozilla settings Firefox. Open the browser menu - it is called up by the orange button at the top left. Click on the "Settings" item. In the window that appears, start with the “Basic Settings” group - specify the address(es) in it home page, and also select the most best option display tabs when the browser starts. If you don't know how to do this, click on the "Help" button in the lower right corner of the settings window.

Go to the next group of settings - “Tabs”. To select your preferred options, review the information in help system. Check all the required boxes and click OK to save your settings.

Download the add-on you like. Typically, you will need to restart your browser after the installation process is complete.

Mechanism bookmarks in Firefox appeared quite a long time ago. All popular in given time Browsers have similar lists in which you can easily add the address of a page that you would like to read later or be able to quickly go to it. Today we will talk about a product from the Mozilla community. Bookmarks in Firefox, it seems to me, is not implemented very conveniently, so today you will learn about a browser extension - a “sidebar”, through which comfortable work with list of saved page URLs.

Firefox Sidebar, which is discussed at the beginning of the article, has already been mentioned on the site in the material “”, but it would not be out of place to once again mention such a convenient extension called “”. You can download it from the given link from official site Mozilla add-ons . In a nutshell - this is handy tool for managing bookmarks, viewing the history of visited pages, managing downloaded files, a manager of add-ons and plugins... Instead of working with the built-in bookmarking mechanism, we will actively use the proposed sidebar. If you haven't used it yet similar decision, then it’s time to install it by following the link and clicking “ Add to Firefox" (or " Download now" for the Russian version of the site).

We further assume that the extension Firefox to display sidebar You have installed and enabled the display of the Bookmarks Toolbar. If you do not want to use “All in one sidebar”, then these instructions will help you with a “bare” browser without any add-ons.

Active Internet users will probably accumulate over time many bookmarks, and those that have to be used really often are a relatively small number. For those elements that are most often required, the browser provides a separate one, which by default is located under address bar. Check whether its display is turned on, and if not, check the box in the “View” - “Toolbars” menu opposite the “Bookmarks Toolbar” item (“View” - “Toolbars” - “Bookmarks Bar”). Next, I will show you how to add buttons to it to quickly navigate to the most necessary sites.

Everything is quite simple thanks to Drag’n’Drop technology. To add a bookmark(remember the address) to open in Firefox page– you need to left-click in the address bar (the entire address will be highlighted) and drag the selected URL into one of the corresponding folders (more on them later) on the sidebar of the browser. As an option, you can drag not the selected text, but the icon in front of Page URL (globe, castle, etc.).

For those who are used to actively using “hot keys” (or have not installed the “All in one sidebar”), the combination of buttons “ Ctrl+D", which brings up a dialog with a choice of name bookmark to be added, one of 4 folders for saving it and tags for quick search or grouping menu items “BookMarks”. The purpose of the existing 4 groups is described below.

Initially, all elements in the “Bookmarks” section are divided into 4 folders. The first one is “ Bookmarks toolbar» serves to add bookmarks in Firefox, which are displayed in the corresponding panel under the address bar of the browser. The most actively used elements are placed here. The second folder is “ Bookmarks menu", which contains bookmarks displayed directly in Browser Bookmars menu. Chapter " Unsorted bookmarks» is used for storing “unfiled” (unsorted) bookmarks. Fourth folder " Mobile bookmarks» contains bookmarks that were added from mobile version browser and synchronized through a built-in mechanism.

Very convenient mechanism organizing bookmarks is the ability to create subfolders in the specified 4 standard sections (in the screenshot above). You can create folders in the Firefox bookmarks bar. To do this in context menu This panel has a “New Folder” item (“ New folder"for the Russian version of the browser). Dragging elements between folders is also carried out using Drag’n’Drop technology.

For those who have accumulated a lot of bookmarks, this will be very helpful when searching. the desired address extension for Firefox called "". It contains search(more precisely, a filter) by bookmark name. The operation of the filter is shown in the figure below: of the couple of hundred URLs I had, I only needed those with the combination “ ” in the name. It’s very convenient - you don’t have to look through all the links added in recent years.

Open bookmark in the current browser tab you can simply click on it with the left mouse button, or in a new tab - by clicking the central button (wheel). Change The name or URL in an existing bookmark can be done by right-clicking on it and selecting “Properties” in the context menu that appears.

For save bookmarks(backup) there is a simple built-in mechanism: click “ Ctrl+Shift+B» - the standard one will open bookmark library. IN top menu select " Import and Backup ", and in it the item " Backup" This will open a window for choosing a name and location to save the file with a list of your bookmarks. Restore bookmarks just as simple: in " Import and Backup» libraries select « Restore» – « Choose File" In the window that opens, specify the file from which you need import bookmarks. All!..

In addition to these instructions, the site already has articles dedicated to the browser from Mozilla. For example, very useful tool is between devices. Exactly exchange bookmarks and makes this technology very popular so as not to bother with copying through a file. And the article about will help you get acquainted with Internet pages that turned out to be objectionable to the authorities.

Bookmarks in the browser, like in a book, are created to quickly find the required sites. They should be located so that “without stumbling” you can select the one you are looking for, and delete the used one. And it would be nice if the information was available from a computer, a smartphone, and a tablet...

It's easy to make a Mozilla Firefox bookmark, and it's just as easy to manage them. Unlike the analogue in social networks, only its users have access to such a service in the viewer. Firefox also has a visual bookmarks page, on which they are clearly displayed, which speeds up and makes your work as comfortable as possible.

Creation procedure

A bookmark in Mozilla Firefox is theoretically a display of a website address in it, followed by search and opening. In order to make a bookmarks page in Mozilla you should:

There is a special option in Firefox to work with this service. It is located on the gray line at the top of the screen. If you need to work with it, click on it, go to the top line Show, automatically get to Library - All entries - Other.

There will be such commands:

• show all;
• edit;
• window;
• other;
• recent;
• last marks.

When saving to the Library, the registered email address of the page is shown. If desired, bookmarks in Mozilla can be customized.

Visual display

The viewer allows you to display thumbnail images of saved sites on the screen. How to make a bookmarks bar of this type in Mozilla? You should do this:

• choose your favorite object or one that is needed in your work and should open as quickly as possible;
• go to the tab with windows;
• click on the cross on the empty square;
• in the window, select the bookmark in Mozilla that you want to pin;
• Click on the inscription and press the blue Save button.

After saving it looks like this:

The service can be changed if desired. To hide it you need to:

• click on the three lines at the top of the screen;
• select Show, Hide, Panel from the drop-down list;
• exit settings.

How to customize the bookmarks bar in Mozilla? If you prefer any value, you can move it to the place you like - just drag the square. You can visually pin Yandex in Mozilla Firefox in the same way.

Editing

Bookmarked pages in Firefox can not only be saved and deleted. Editing allows you to change their name and location. When you click on the Edit line, a menu appears that allows you to figure out how to write what you need under the name that the user likes, and save it in the appropriate place.

You can also copy a file from the library to your desktop or to a separate folder if you reinstall the software or operating system.

Deleting a bookmark

If there is no need for it, you can delete it. Let's start:

• find the line;
• Click on the blue star at the top;
• we see a window;
• Click Delete and it disappears.

Synchronization

When using ointment on different devices their owner is faced with the question of how to make a bookmark in the Mozilla browser so that it is available on all gadgets? This is why synchronization was invented.

The created bookmark entries (their addresses linked to the user profile) are stored on Mazil’s servers. First, we create or confirm an account (usually the user is identified by email address), click on the three dashes in the corner of the screen, go to the Synchronize button in the drop-down settings panel. When you log in from another device under your profile, you can bring all bookmarks in Mazil into line.