Secret Feature That Makes Firefox Bookmarks Awesome!

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Firefox is my favorite web browser and one of the main reasons for that is its great Bookmarks system. Firefox Bookmarks are one of the best bookmarks systems of any browsers and there is a Secret Hidden Feature that makes it the best, you create your own Custom Search inside of a bookmark.
Once you start using Firefox's Bookmarks plus the Multi-Account Containers feature, you will wonder why you ever bothered using any other browser.
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00:00 = Intro
00:10 = My Favorite Part of the Firefox Bookmarks System
00:47 = Organizing Your Bookmarks in Firefox
01:08 = Bookmarks Toolbar
01:35 = Bookmarks Menu
02:02 = Bookmarks Library
02:47 = Bookmarks Sidebar
03:24 = Undo Changes in Firefox Bookmarks
03:32 = Firefox Sync Integration
03:41 = Import & Export Bookmarks Manually
04:15 = How to Add Bookmarks in Firefox
05:22 = How To Remove Bookmarks
05:45 = Advanced Features
05:54 = Asterisk Bookmarks Search
06:54 = Tags for Bookmarks
08:26 = Bookmark Keywords
08:47 = How to Make a Keyword Shortcut
09:20 = How To Create Custom Search Shortcut via Bookmark Keywords (my favorite part)
11:56 = #shameless plugs for other Firefox videos
12:12 = Like & Subscribe, it helps :D
12:23 = More Content at DestinationLinux.Network
12:46 = Outro
12:56 = Clarification why Firefox looks kind of weird in this video (snaps have theming issues)
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@colinbrookes8625 Год назад

Marvelous video, thank you for creating it. I've been using Firefox for as long as its been around and didn't know some of the funcstions/alternative ways of doing things. Applying what you have shown here will smooth out and speed-up my workflow even more. Much appreciated. I'm going to look at some of your other content now - you're a great presenter and a fine teacher 🙂

@yogeshagarwal1021 Год назад

Thanks so much Michael!! Saved me from watching several videos about bookmarks. Genuinely happy when people organize their videos by adding timestamps, it really helps.

@peltier8 3 года назад

Thanks! Appreciate you taking the time to do this...need to play around a bit now. Slowly customizing the primary desktop. Hopefully I'll be able to sync settings across platforms.

@irahoffman3867 2 года назад

Mike - AWESOME!! you saved me hours of constantly searching for bookmarks, not to mention how to figure out how to set up new bookmark categories. MANY THANKS, Ira Hoffman

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

You're welcome. I'm glad you found it useful. 😎👍

@leothegeek4432 2 года назад

Perfect Video! Many thanks for the very useful information on searching inside the bookmarks!

@ronspi 2 года назад

Thank you for the great video. I love FVD Speed Dial which as off 11/23/2021 Firefox disabled as an extension. Do you recommend any extension that can be used as a Speed Dial with tabs?

@KeineAhnung1996 4 месяца назад

This feature is really awesome. Thanks for this video!

@ingee8 2 года назад

Good day. I enjoy your informative videos. I have a question, reguarding Firefox Bookmarks. I like to have a website I Bookmark in two different folders under different folder names. When I tried to do it, the website I Bookmark, will only show in the second folder and not in the original folder. I want to have that same website in two different folders I named.

@breadfan9 10 месяцев назад

How to get a boomark to be added at the top of the menu bar instead of the bottom where I need to drag it back up

@AV8R_1 11 месяцев назад

I would like my bookmarks in the sidebar to sort in the order they are most frequently visited. Is this possible? I know you can do it in the library menu, but I want it in the SIDEBAR.

@sproid 3 года назад

This is not a mobile friendly video. Please use a zoom feature or something. That or my eyesight is getting worst.

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

Sorry about that, you are correct. Since I made this about the desktop version of Firefox I didnt think about the mobile viewing portion of this. I recorded this in a way that a zoom would have been possible but I just didnt think to do it during the recording. I will make sure that future videos will contain zooms when I need to show specific pieces of the screen. So sorry again but thank you for commenting, I will do better next time.

@inq752 Год назад

I want the minimalistic bookmark toolbar on the left so i can maximize the vertical ratio of the browsing area. How would i do that?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

The Bookmark Sidebar is built into Firefox by default, all you need to do is press Ctrl+B to toggle it. 😎👍

@MrTay675 5 месяцев назад

is there a way to have the row of bookmarks at the top maybe even double or triple rowed under the search bar? so you dont have to click on the double arrow or do it off to the side.

@michael_tunnell 5 месяцев назад

on a computer, vertical space is the more precious space so I would recommend not doing this but there might be an extension for it. I would search for multiple rows in the addon page. I feel like the Sidebar is much more efficient because it can show all bookmarks easily with a search box and be activated/hidden by Ctrl+B at any time.

@JuicySmoothieFruityBoy Год назад

Do you know a keyboard shortcut by which you can bookmark a tab or multiple selected tabs in the bookmark folder that is currently selected?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Ctrl+D is the shortcut to add a bookmark but it only does one at a time. When I want to bookmark multiples I select them with the shift key, then I press Ctrl+B to open the Bookmarks sidebar and then I just drag and drop the tabs into the place I want them and it adds them all. Hope that helps.

@DaerJohannes Год назад

This bookmark keyword search feature was working also in Firefox for Android until version 69 in 2020, Then they removed that great feature, because everything was re-implemented in version 70. Unfortunately, they did not bring back this feature yet. I keep on waiting.

@walterramjet 5 месяцев назад

I know how to sort my bookmarks by name (alphabetically), but how do I get firefox to remember my sort by name?

@michaelalexander1806 Год назад

Is there a setting to get items in the bookmarks pulldown more closely spaced?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

you can try changing the appearance mode in the Customize Toolbar section to "Compact" but that affects other things as well. Otherwise I dont think so, maybe with a theme plugin perhaps. I personally use the Bookmarks Sidebar because it is nicely compacted while at the same time being the most robust version of the Bookmarks Management. Ctrl+B to activated the sidebar.

@Bagginsess 3 года назад

I love Firefox but I do wish they added a vertical tab browser akin to their bookmark sidebar browser. Their current setup has something similar but it gets hidden after you select a tab, forcing you to reopen it. Ergo they should add tabs to the bookmark sidebar.

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

there are multiple extensions for this some of which Mozilla recommends for it. Is there an issue with using one of the extensions like Sideberry? addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

@Bagginsess 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell I know and I have one but it seems like a simple thing they could do. I just like to throw my 2 cence in incase others like the idea amd spread it around. Hopefully I didn't come across as too salty.

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

You didn't come across as salty at all, I was just curious why built in vs extension. Discoverability would be much better built in but that's all I can think of. Container Tabs is via an extension so I feel like Firefox is more likely to make stuff like that than built in but built in stuff would be nice

@samuelitooooo 2 года назад

This is a built-in option in Vivaldi and if you choose it, it removes the top bar so you don't have a duplicate row of open tabs taking up screen space. Wish Firefox would do the same, even if not by default. It's really cool how Firefox has a Sidebar as sort of its own open platform but I think more could be done with it. EDIT: Why built-in? I think I'd rather Mozilla themselves handle the UI - disabling the top row of tabs - than an extension. 😅

@thomas-mg1ws 2 месяца назад

hi, great video. I just couldn't find how did you manage to get your "tile" bookmark under your main searchbar on the homepage. I'm searching for how to do it but can't find anything to explain but somehow you manage to do it.

@michael_tunnell 2 месяца назад

That’s the default new tab with pinning things that I go to frequently. Also in the settings section there is an option to add more rows to this part so I made it 4 rows

@reeslindseth1299 2 года назад

Late to the party but i had a question - do you know how to resize the bookmark toolbar at the top? It's smaller than i would prefer. I've done some googling and tried some things but haven't been able to adjust the actual bookmark toolbar.

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

I don't think it's possible with the latest versions of Firefox. I think the only option is the size controls in the Customizer dialog in the hamburger menu

@cigarettesmokingman_GR 2 года назад

All bookmarks / tags are grey, can we change that ?

@TheFall777 Год назад

How do I merge dupe folders imported from different browsers? Actually how do i prevent firefox from putting imported bookmarks into its own group and just merge everything into the firefox bookmark system and ignore the dup links?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

I haven't done this in a while but I used an extension to do it back when I did. I dont remember which extension I used but looking at the current options, these 2 seem worth a look. 1.) addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-dupes/ and 2.) addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmarks-clean-up/ I am not recommending either of these as I have not used them before but this should be a good place to start. Hopefully this helps.

@payusavisit3482 4 дня назад

thank you for the info about bookmarks but please sir how can we install RU-vid and other sites to open as a single window as chrome does

@michael_tunnell 4 дня назад

Sadly Firefox removed this feature. It was called Kiosk mode. The multiple account containers are pretty dope though so I use those. I made a video about them if you want to learn more

@cesarhenrxr 2 года назад

One question: Is there any extension/function that close all bookmarked tabs in a window? Thanks in advance!

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Interesting idea. I'm not sure, sorry.

@thinkagain5489 2 года назад

great video. After learning to correctly backup my computer system.. organizing the bookmarks and such was not as difficult. I definitely keep my fire fox system folder backed up as well as my documents.. So if my system dies or computer dies I still have everything in on an install and an overwrite. I was wondering if you have any videos on other extensions? I learned Containers watching your video which was very helpful. Thank You.

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

I don't yet but I do think it's a good idea for me to do that sometime soon 😎👍 I'm glad you found my videos useful. 😎

@DrBroncanuus Год назад

Hi can anyone help...I don't understand computers.....in firefox i click manage bookmarks but won't show any bookmarks from 2022-2023...it just goes upto 2021 ?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Are you using the Bookmarks Library? Press Ctrl+Shift+O on your keyboard to launch it and there you have a lot more features and options.

@bill775 Год назад

I'm trying to figure out how to access my bookmarks in a way that it will make me a shortcut to view the bookmarks that were recently added. Can you help Michael?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

It doesnt look like the Bookmarks Sidebar offers this but you can do it in the Library window. Ctrl+Shift+O will open the library and then at the top in the Views menu you can choose Sort by Added and that should accomplish what you are wanting. Hope this helps.

@cerumen 2 года назад

It seems like you can’t select multiple bookmarks in the sidebar to move/group/delete them, which would make organising in that view too cumbersome for me, is there a workaround or am I missing something?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

You can select multiple bookmarks by holding down the Ctrl key.

@cerumen 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell Appreciate the reply. I'm on Mac, but cmd + click doesn't work in sidebar view either. Maybe it's because my FF is outdated?

@cerumen 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell Update: Figured out it was because you have to click the negative space beside the bookmark, not the bookmark itself, in order to select multiples, otherwise the bookmark opens automatically.

@user-hk1pb9ml7r 2 года назад

Is there a way to increase the size of font for bookmarks tab ?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Interesting question, I've never tried to do that. It is likely possible via creating a custom userchrome.css file on your profile. It might be possible in another way too but that CSS file is something I'm confident should work.

@RIP123 2 года назад

What programing website would you recommend to make custom searches on quick syntax stuff?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

You don't need programming for this. Simply do a search on a site for MYSEARCHTERM, then take the URL after the search and replace MYSEARCHTERM with %s and then give it a keyword and you're done.

@RIP123 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell oh yeah I understood, I actually have some custom searches made already. It's just that I was looking for a website that I could look up syntax quickly by using this custom search function, i figured you'd know some because i think you mentioned having a custom search for programming manuals and stuff like that on other video i can't remember the name of

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Oh I see, I usually just go to the documentation site like php.net and set up one for that.

@random_content_generator 2 года назад

I am still trying to figure how to quickly open multiple tabs of a single tag. If I type the plus sign followed by the tag word on the location bar, only one bookmark can be chosen, no matter what.

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

I am not sure what you are trying to do exactly but if you press Ctrl+B you can open the sidebar for more easily opening of multiple bookmarks by right clicking a tag or folder

@random_content_generator 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell Yes, and that method is fairly painful.

@e00d20 2 года назад

thank you very much!

@ravingcyclist624 2 года назад

Excellent! Thanks !!

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

you're welcome! :D

@dotv124 Год назад

What custom cursor name you are using? Thx

@michael_tunnell Год назад

I am not using a custom cursor. That is the default cursor for KDE Plasma on Kubuntu

@franklidgad Год назад

As a long time user of Firefox I have been using keywords forever. Knowing the search function just added another level to why I continue to use this amazing browser. There have been some GUI issues with Firefox, like the spacing problem for bookmarks in the recent versions, but I have figured out a way to restore the compact view which I want to keep. I found this video to be really helpful and will be implementing this immediately. I do have an issue as to when you add a new bookmark (with the star icon) that the keyword field is not present in the popup. So if you want to add a keyword you have to go and edit the bookmark manually.... which is a pain to find if you have many bookmarks. Why can't they just have that field present? Speaking of many bookmarks I do have one request which you might be able to answer. How would I be able to convert all my bookmarks to a local web page (not cloud) so when I startup Firefox I see all my categorized bookmarks all on one web page? Basically similar to the Bookmark toolbar but in a web page.... with categories that you can drop down to choose the link you want. I would set my Firefox default homepage to this local bookmarks page. Even if I could find an app to import my bookmarks from Firefox to create a local web page that would work to. This could be on the cusp of getting into web page development which I don't have much experience in but if there was a drag and drop app utility available I would certainly be interested. I haven't tried messing around with anything yet to accomplish this but it is something I have always wanted to do. In the back of my mind I'm maybe thinking the rabbit hole is too deep.

@michael_tunnell Год назад

I’m glad this video was useful to you, thanks for watching and sharing feedback. The keyword field not being there by default is pretty dumb and Firefox has never made it clear that the function is there. As for the web page thing. Open the bookmarks manager and export to HTML. This will essentially do what you want but not with a drop down system just a converting to a web page part.

@minorkeymood Год назад

A great tutorial! How do I get rid of those space-hogging flavicons? I only want text bookmarks on my toolbar. Can you help?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

I'm glad you enjoyed the video. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a way to remove the icons. Usually those are used for when you have a ton of tabs and then only the icons are shown.

@abhayraj1281 Год назад

i have macbook pro 13 inch mid 2012 with 4 gb ram I installed chrome and its was so laggy I was so frustrated then I tried firefox and this one is super duper smoother than chrome

@SmartPhotoVault 2 года назад

Very Helpful - ThankY

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

You're welcome 😎👍

@jojodelacroix 7 месяцев назад

Lucky I watched this video. Chrome has a similar thing where you can add almost any site as a "search Engine". Since I am migrating over from Chrome, I needed something similar and this is just that. Guess I need to watch your container video because I read the Firefox article about it and I understand how they work but not why Id want to use them.

@michael_tunnell 7 месяцев назад

this method is much better than Chrome's in my opinion. Firefox also can do it the same way with the search engine method (I think it started in Firefox) but I prefer this way instead. Yes, you should absolutely check out the containers video :D

@guilherme5094 3 года назад

I don't agree with many of Mozilla's decisions, but Firefox is still my browser of choice.

@daryn_Canada_1066 Год назад

I have used Firefox for years. How did you bring up the sidebar? I missed something. I want to have all my folders alphabetically sorted ALL THE TIME but I can't figure this out. Can you help me? Great Video! Did you download and app for the "sidebar"? I can't figure this out.

@michael_tunnell Год назад

The sidebar is a built in feature of Firefox, all you gotta do is press the keybind of Ctrl+B You can control the sorting inside the sidebar for alphabetical

@daryn_Canada_1066 Год назад

@@michael_tunnell Thanks very much for responding, greatly appreciated!

@michael_tunnell Год назад

You're welcome 😎👍

@thecyclopsguy4106 Год назад

Is it possible to bookmark a specific (text) section of a web page? Can't seem to find anything on this. Thx in advance :)

@michael_tunnell Год назад

That's making notes of a site or highlights, not bookmarking. There might be an extension for that but I don't know of one. I use Obsidian app for my notes.

@thecyclopsguy4106 Год назад

@@michael_tunnell Alright thank you :D

@michael_tunnell Год назад

You're welcome, sorry I didn't have an exact answer

@zenmachina6735 2 года назад

just blew my mind

@eriwalks6858 2 года назад

I am on a macbook pro and can,t right click to create a new folder. Any one know what to do?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

you can try a 2 finger click or Ctrl+Mouse click, one of those might work.

@eriwalks6858 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell I found it in the gear box after searching around a while.Thanks for getting back to me.

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Glad you found the solution 👍

@Nixima81 2 года назад

I love to know who you can center the bookmarks in the bookmark field like you use to be able to do way back in the days. There is a flexible till you can drag and drop in-front and after the bookmarks but that so called flexible spacer just don't flex for me so i end up adding more and more but still can't get my bookmarks nice and centered. So annoying!

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

I dont remember a time where the bookmarks were centered. I also dont use the bookmarks toolbar anymore because I think the Sidebar is much faster now. Ctrl+B to activate the bookmark sidebar and then you can navigate it like a folder tree. I think that is much more efficient. With that said, I don't have my bookmarks viewable 99% of the time because I just use the keyword search stuff like I show in the video almost always. It is so much faster to do it this way. :D

@Nixima81 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell it was never centered out of the box you simply put a flexible spacer in-front and after the bookmarks and that was all you have to do. I have to look deeper down this rabbit hole. Thanks for you'r videos :D

@iamtheZanewrestling1review 3 года назад

hey i have a question i accidentally deleted my bookmark toolbar items do you know a way to get it back?

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

Firefox automatically makes backups that you can restore by going into the bookmarks library. I demonstrate how to do this in the video and you should find at least a few backups listed in there to restore

@iamtheZanewrestling1review 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell i tried it didn't work

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

@@iamtheZanewrestling1review oh if the auto-backups don't fix it then sorry but unless you have previously made a backup I dont think it is possible to retrieve those delete bookmarks. I could be wrong, there might be a way but I dont know of one, sorry.

@iamtheZanewrestling1review 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell well here is the thing i'm not talking about the bookmarks i'm talking about menu bar itself where you can view the bookmarks the bookmark toolbar items i deleted it by accident and now it will not display.i've gone into customize to remove and put it back but it still will not show up.and i can't use the bookmarks menu extension in customize because it looks to big for some reason and i can't make it small so that's my problem.

@serge5046 3 года назад

@@iamtheZanewrestling1review I gave you the answer but YT has deleted my comment !

@peltier8 3 года назад

Michael - you mentioned other extensions to enhance containers. Any specific ones of note? I’m addicted to containers. Thanks 🤣

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

I am making a video on this because there are quite a few but pretty much all need demonstrating however if you want to check them out now, Simple Tab Groups and Sidebery are very cool options that work well with Containers

@jryan6178 2 года назад

I'd like to make room on my toolbar, so how can I remove the icons, please?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Right click the toolbar and choose the Customize option this will open a new tab with a menu box and a big gallery of options. From here you just drag and drop the icons where you want them to be and the menu at the top right is used for overflow. This lets you have quick access to stuff but hides on the main toolbar interface.

@jryan6178 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell Michael thank you so much for the help. I truly appreciate your time. ;-)

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

You're welcome. Happy to help 😎👍

@petewright3952 Год назад

I found it a bit hard to follow because you go very quickly but that's only because you know it so well! One thing I can't get my head around in Firefox is the 3 or 4 rows of "recent activity" at the bottom of the opening 'home' page. Mine randomly disappear so the rows are blank again (the bookmarks arent deleted they just no longer appear on the recent activity rows).

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Thank you for watching, I appreciate it. I customize the amount of rows in the preferences/settings then I pretty much just use this for pinned websites. I don’t use it as a recent history but rather quick links to websites I use every day

@petewright3952 Год назад

@@michael_tunnell No problem. But I was speaking about the extra rows at the bottom of the homepage, not the upper rows which work fine. My 'lower rows' stay there sometimes from session to session, other times they suddenly disappear (the rows remain but they're empty). It's got me puzzled

@michaelmuirhead1734 2 года назад

Any clue how to get back my old bookmarks please

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

if you dont have a backup or a syncing service and you deleted them . . . there's no way to get data back that isnt saved somewhere. You can create exports of your bookmarks directly from Firefox and store them anywhere you want in a single file but if you dont have any backups. Sorry.

@matiasgratz 3 года назад

Hello good video by the way, I want to use firefox but I have a problem: I am obliged to use google and I had a hard experience hardening it, nothing worked as recommended to use firefox having privacy but at the same time being in google?

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

You can use Google services just fine inside of Firefox. I'm not sure what your question relates to exactly, please clarify and I'd be glad to help.

@matiasgratz 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell Yes, sorry for expressing myself incorrectly. What I wanted to say was that when I installed firefox I entered reddit groups which had guides on how to make firefox more private hardening the browsing to make it more secure. So I had trouble with some functionalities that were disabled. What would you recommend about using browsers and having privacy? What's your opinion about browsing privacy?

@philippe-lebel 2 года назад

I'm not very amazed by theses features. It's still very complicated to remove duplicate and compare folders. There some add on allowing to erase "all duplicates" without choising location but nothing realy sophisticated and usable. To organize files in my computer I use Beyond compare. I'd like to have something like this for bookmarks. I'm still waiting (and pray) :)

@sunriseeternity300 2 года назад

I wish that Folders (bookmark Folders) would show up in the searches (search bookmarks). At the very least, i wish i could add a tag to the a "Bookmark Folder". Allowing me to bring up folders by Key word searches.

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

That is one thing I don't like about it as well.

@mikegraham4255 4 месяца назад

The * shortcut was nice, but keyword searches can be EASILY created by just right clicking inside any search box.

@michael_tunnell 4 месяца назад

This is true but that places them in the search engine preferences located in the settings. Last time I checked those are not synced. They might be now though. I like having them in my bookmarks because I know for sure they are synced and I have around 100 of them so the search engine preferences thing becomes a bit wonky at that number

@sproid 3 года назад

Wouldn't be better to have a separated OS user account to do the recordings of whatever you want to make videos of? That way you avoid exposing all the personal info like bookmarks, files, pop up notifications, etc.

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

You are correct that would be easier and I may do something like that in the next video that has that sort of issue. I decided to make this video yesterday so I decided to do it, wrote the outline of what to cover, recorded it, edited it, and published it all in one day and honestly that's the reason I didnt notice the funky stuff until after it was done because I was laser focused on getting it made. In the future, I will prepare something to solve this rather than using a Snap.

@gryhze 2 года назад

Just watched this with some interest. Can you discuss in a video how to completely remove a Firefox bookmark library on one laptop and install a fresh updated bookmark library from another laptop?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Ctrl + shift + O will open the bookmarks manager, from here you can import and export your bookmarks with the menu at the top

@gryhze 2 года назад

Cleaned up and updated! Thanks!

@jerryli821 9 месяцев назад

Why are bookmarks sorted by oldest on top? You have to scroll down a hundred to find you latest bookmarks. There must be a sort option for newest on top, no?

@michael_tunnell 9 месяцев назад

Bookmarks are added to the bottom of the list but you can change the order in the Bookmarks Manager. 🍔menu > Bookmarks > Manage bookmarks (at the bottom) / or the shortcut of Ctrl+Shift+O . . . from here there are a ton of sorting options 😎👍

@jerryli821 9 месяцев назад

@@michael_tunnell - Thanks. Now if I could re-order RU-vid comments from newest to oldest. What are they thinking?

@tampajep Год назад

Does Firefox allow for multiple toolbars?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

I think it does but what do you want multiple toolbars?

@tampajep Год назад

@@michael_tunnell Because the bar doesn't have enough space to accommodate my needs. Among others, I've bookmarked my utilities, financial institutions, and twitter and RU-vid accounts. There are many posts online from others that have the same problem. And after much searching, I learned that Firefox needs an add-on to add more bookmark bars. It looks clunky and not worth the time. Thank you.

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Personally I find the bookmark bar as a waste of vital vertical space. I used to be avid user of bookmark bar until I switched to the bookmark sidebar. The bookmark sidebar has a ton more value in my opinion, it’s easily organized and can hold as many bookmarks as you want with a tree style layout and is easily accessible with just the shortcut of CTRL+B. I highly recommend trying to sidebar instead.

@tampajep Год назад

@@michael_tunnell I'll give it a try.

@jackski5732 2 года назад

How to include FOLDERS in BOOKMARK searches ?

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

unfortunately, I am not sure. I dont think this is possible.

@jackski5732 2 года назад

@@michael_tunnell thanks

@bufordmaddogtannen 3 года назад

Hmmm the custom search feature at the beginning of the video exists on chrome as well... Firefox's strength at the moment IMHO is the fact that it uses a different rendering engine compared to every other browser out there. Sadly I don't always agree with how the foundation handles its products (e.g. The integration of gpg encryption in thunderbird was a sh*tshow since day 1).

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

Chrome does not have custom search in bookmarks. It has custom search engines in the settings and so does Firefox . . . but this is a very different thing because this makes it easily migrated and synced between devices. Last I check Chrome's sync doesn't include search engines. Though if it does, I can sync mine in Firefox without ever having to use any of the syncing services if I don't want to. I do agree Firefox's own engine is important but this is not the same as what Chrome has for searches

@bufordmaddogtannen 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell I was referring to your statement "now you have a search function for RU-vid directly built into your browser". You can do the same in chrome and come up with your custom search functions as well. The way you presented the feature makes it sound like it's a Firefox thing, when it's common to both browsers. Then yes, Firefox blows chrome out of the water when it comes to the bookmark manager.

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

Well I should have probably worded it differently, that's fair to say because it's not just a custom search function thing. You can apply this to literally any URL so even if a website doesn't have a search function you could add that variable to it for all sorts of things. I should have probably worded it more related to that as it's much more powerful than simply a custom search. Oh well, live and learn. :) Thanks for pointing that out though, I will make note of it for the future.

@bufordmaddogtannen 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell no worries and I didn't mean it in a negative way. Although you never stated it was exclusive to Firefox the combination of the video caption and the writings in the thumbnail kind of steered my brain into expecting all Firefox specific features. I hope it makes sense. 🤣😂

@thundreturtle 3 года назад

Wobbly windows FTW!

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

yes Wobbly Windows for sure! when did I do that in this video though? oh wait did it happen on the Library window? lol I am so used to the effect now I didnt even notice that.

@thundreturtle 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell yep, whenever you moved the library window it wobbled, which is awesome :D

@Tarufox 9 месяцев назад

Ok but can I get rid of the "other bookmarks" and "Bookmarks Menu" folders because they're useless

@michael_tunnell 9 месяцев назад

Unfortunately I don’t think you can remove those

@Sprengstoff Год назад

Good advice -- but you go through a lot of stuff very quickly, and jump cut between subjects.. I keep having to pause and rewind a lot, might just as well go a little slower and let the video be a little longer, imho :)

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Thank you for the feedback. I've been working on content vs brevity so this feedback is interesting. Check out the last 2 KDE related videos I made, I think the presentation is much improved on those since this one

@ajmcomputerstuff8596 2 года назад

👍

@Note-dy6yd 2 года назад

Hi Michael; your video is superb. I have a comment if you don't mind; We are the children of mother nature which created the rainbows with 7 magnificent colors, I scare to say that but do you intentionally use black color on your you-tube page, and on your computer- setting and your beard and hair and tee-shirt and glasses and at the same time make every font dark and so small and invisible that I hit my head and glasses a few time on my laptop to see the details? OR your use of excessive black color is just accidental? If you convince me I promise to buy you a Red Gold Dream Mercedes-McLaren SLR which is the most expensive Mercedes with a price tag of $11,000,000, for your birthday party. No, please take it as an amusement for the break between the working hours.

@chipmidges3122 2 года назад

firefox used to be a lot better few years back. Don’t know what happened over there, but I know this… if it works right, you don’t need tutorials.

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

Anything complex requires tutorials in my opinion. It's not possible to make everything intuitive because novel concepts can't be intuitive

@sturmx96 10 месяцев назад

Microsoft has all the same features and they are implemented better. I would use edge if it didn’t hog that much of memory.

@michael_tunnell 10 месяцев назад

Last I checked, it didn’t have bookmark keyword search feature. Even if it does now it doesn’t have Container Tabs which is my favorite feature of Firefox, I made a video about that feature too here on this channel. Btw Edge uses a ton of memory because it’s based on Google’s Chrome and every browser based on chromium is pretty bloated when it comes to memory usage

@sturmx96 10 месяцев назад

@@michael_tunnell No, edge has bookmarks search feature, they just call it favorites. They implemented the keyword search much better, as you can manage these search engines in settings compared to firefox way where you have to download the certain plugin for youtube search or any other one. The method you showed seems like a workaround rather than an official one also it makes you create additional bookmarks that you might not need just for the sake of search feature. Also, edge recently released its own container tabs which is called workspaces where you can even share them with your colleagues and manage tabs together. What I miss in edge is tabs grouping, sure there are some third party extensions in firefox for that matter but none of them are that convenient and nice looking. There are some drawbacks but you can live with them and I still think it's a nice browser especially performance wise.

@michael_tunnell 8 месяцев назад

Firefox also has the search function system in settings like every browser does. The bookmarks option is an additional feature. In Firefox you can also add a search specific box to the toolbar that does only search and easily switched the engine. I don’t know about the workspaces thing but I’ll check it out to learn more. The extension Simple Tab Groups works really well in my opinion. The built in grouping system from old Firefox was much better and it’s a shame it’s gone but this extension works well and integrates with Container Tabs

@dennisdevine9563 3 года назад

YOu know that after September 30th 2021, Google Bookmarks will no longer be supported???

@michael_tunnell 3 года назад

I ddint know that. Google Chrome/ium is removing Bookmarks entirely?

@dennisdevine9563 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell That message showed up when I loaded Google Bookmarks with that message. I have been using it for years, moving all the bookmarks to raindrop.io and Firefox

@dennisdevine9563 3 года назад

@@michael_tunnell Message shows up when I open Google Boomarks ""GOOGLE BOOKMARKS IS SHUTTING DOWN; WILL NO LONGER BE SUPPORTED AFTER 30 SEPTEMBER ". I'll be moving everything to Firefox and raindrop.io. Great video by the way. www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/google-bookmarks-is-shutting-down-wont-be-supported-after-30-september-9829351.html

@dennisbergendorf5905 4 месяца назад

I'll never understand you geeks. Only happy when you get to take a dozen or more steps to get something done.

@michael_tunnell 4 месяца назад

With that attitude, you’re right, you won’t. In fact your perspective of geeks is not only flawed, it’s completely broken. We don’t want to make things take a dozen steps but we are okay with doing a dozen steps once to setup a better and faster way. Non-geeks type RU-vid into the address bar (which searches Google), then they click the link, then they click the search box, then they type their search, and finally they click the search icon. Whereas a geek like me would set this up which takes a tiny amount of additional effort and then every time I search RU-vid I just type “y examplesearch” and press enter. That’s 10 times faster than the non-geek way. If I don’t want to search and just want to go to RU-vid then I just type y and press enter, that’s it. Geeks are people who are willing to put in slightly more effort up front to get a faster and easier solution to do every time after that. It’s up to you now to try it out or just keep using the slower method that actually takes many many more steps. This makes up for the amount of steps up front in just 5 uses but if you prefer the slower way then enjoy

@akya 2 года назад

people didnt know this? :O

@michael_tunnell 2 года назад

didn't know what? the keyboard shortcut searches? I would say very few are aware of this because it's not even in Firefox's documentation. I don't remember where I found this feature because I have been using it for years but I dont think Mozilla tells you anywhere on their website that it is even possible so I am not surprised by people not knowing about this.

@treehuggerjoe9795 Год назад

That a lot of BS on one video

@michael_tunnell Год назад

such valuable feedback

@HUSSAIN98762 Год назад

iam from india. ur good explaner

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

@rediffusion7996 Год назад

Linkman is TOP 💫

@Chikowski101 Год назад

mozilla firefox unable to connect to google/youtube error SSL_ERROR_HANDSHAKE_UNEXPECTED_ALERT is being displayed , so damn irritating what to do ?

@michael_tunnell Год назад

need a lot more detail such as what operating system, what version of OS and version of FF and much more. This is not enough detail to give support.

@Chikowski101 Год назад

@@michael_tunnell windows 11 22H2

@Chikowski101 Год назад

@@michael_tunnell and I'm using the latest version of Firefox 🔥

@michael_tunnell Год назад

Unfortunately I'm not going to be able to answer that. My operating system is Linux and since I don't use Windows if it's a Windows specific issue there's no way for me to troubleshoot it for you. Sorry.

@Chikowski101 Год назад

@@michael_tunnell okay Micheal many windows users are actually encountering this issue