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The built in bookmarks UX for Firefox is dismall. How do I bookmark a page without opening the whole shebang and shoosing a bookmark folder? I can simply 'star' the page, but then it ends up in Unsorted Bookmarks. I can move a bookmark folder to the bookmark toolbar, where I have instant access to all bookmarks in that folder, but I can no longer bookmark a page in that folder in the normal way, because when I have to click the damned bookmark folder icon and manually type in the URL and title.

What add-ins are there that can make bookmarking in Firefox humanly sane?

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I would recommend X-Marks, I've used it for years. Except for the minor problem that they are ending their service in January. Nothing I've found has ever matched it, and I hope some other group moves in and fills in the void X-Marks is leaving.

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It appears that the rumors of X-Marks' death have been exaggerated. blog.xmarks.com/?p=1988 However, X-Marks may morph into a service that costs money, as a warning. – Zoot Oct 13 '10 at 13:34
Yea, I saw the news, and it made my day. For someone who uses three different browsers across 5 different machines, it is a necessity of life. I had added my own voice as one willing to pay a subscription fee to keep it alive. Now, if they'll only go back and finish the Android port they had started.... – BBlake Oct 16 '10 at 12:19
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Use the latest Firefox. Ctrl+D will allow you to create a bookmark and add tags to them. Use Shift+Tab to change the folder it will go into but I rarely use that. Instead, I just type a tag in the location field and select from the list FF brings up.

Another option is to open the bookmark side view (Ctrl+B) and drag the site icon to the folder you want.

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You might try Google Bookmarks, using the Google Bookmarks bookmarklet or the Google Toolbar.
See the Bookmarks Help for more details.

There are several possibly useful Firefox add-ons available here.

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+1 for having your bmarks available online, anywhere you go! – wez Oct 8 '10 at 6:54
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I totally agree. Vanilla Firefox bookmarking is pretty bad... I use the Add Bookmark Here addon it lets you navigate to the folder you want to book mark and there will be a option to add the bookmark to that folder. Pretty nice actually. I then sync everything with XMarks...

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You could also look in to using the Speed Dial Add-in for Firefox... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/speed-dial/

although you will not be able to move your bookmarked pages between different browsers and they may be a performance hit?! Try it and see i guess.

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