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The search box in the bookmarks bar only searches the bookmarks themselves, yet I have arranged the bookmarks into folders and subfolders. Sometimes I can't see the folder that I know I have, so I would like to do a search for it. Even if I find a bookmark that I have, onces it comes up as a result of a bookmark search, there's no way of finding out what folder it is contained within so I can get the other bookmarks - I'd like a similar function to Open Containing Folder.

I've had a look for an add-on to do this but the problem is the terms bookmark, folder and organise are too general.

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This is still an issue with Firefox 4. most of the links provided are either broken or not relevant. – RussellW May 26 '11 at 4:30
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For everyone's information I have noticed this as well. You can search for a string pattern in your bookmarks using the bookmarks organization menu ( used to show up as 'Organize Bookmarks' and is now reachable as 'Show all Bookmarks' both under the 'Bookmarks' menu item ).

This built in Firefox feature allows you to search for and find a link based on the occurance of the search string within the 'Name' field and/or 'Location/URL' field of a bookmark.

BUT if you happen to have organized your many hundred bookmarks in a treelike hierarchy of folders, the built in search feature it DOES NOT not show you in which of the 'Bookmark' folders the link has been saved.

For finding a bookmark and navigating to it the feature is useful.

BUT if one's intention is to find out under which bookmark folder a given bookmark was saved the feature is useless. This maybe an oversight by Mozilla or it may be intentional.

I have even upgraded to the ESR release ( 10.0.3 ) and ( as of 22.04.2012 ) could not find a built-in feature that indicates a bookmark's location within one's bookmarks hierarchy.

What I can recommend is to use an add-on. For example

Sidebar Bookmarks Search Plus 1.9

seems to do the trick. After installation you must select for the bookmarks to show in the 'sidebar' window ( CTRL-B or 'View -> Sidebar -> Bookmarks' ). You can then enter a search string and click on any matching results that will be displayed in the upper pane of the side-bar. The bookmark's location is highlighted in the folder view at the bottom of the side-bar.

Hope this helps

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I'll accept this as correct. On my machine, now running Firefox 11.0 on XP, the addon is a solution. Some slight drawbacks are: clicking on the bookmark in the top pane browses to it as well as highlighting the folder in the bottom pane; and the folder highlight doesn't have focus so is very light grey unless I click on the scrollbar. Might just be my colour settings. – Martin Apr 23 at 7:43
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In the menu select Bookmarks

Select Organize Bookmarks

Expand BookMark Menu.

(or )

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Smart+Bookmarks+folders

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use Enhanced Bookmark Search

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Only for Firefox 1.0 to 2.0, I'm on 3.5.2. – Martin Aug 14 '09 at 7:11
then you have to try other options . – joe Aug 14 '09 at 8:00
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Please see also this related/similar question:

http://superuser.com/questions/99223/locate-bookmarks-folder-after-finding-bookmarks-in-firefox

Maybe the 2 issues should be filed as a bug or somehow included as features. They seem basic functionality to me.

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Thanks, I've just found an Add-On that will solve your problem, and posted it as a reply. I'm leaving this open because I haven't completely solved my problem. – Martin Jan 22 '10 at 14:26
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I also have the same longstanding problem. When the bookmarks wast only a html file, I used to put a link to it as a bookmark, open it in the browser and then search it through there. That way I could easily search the folder names, etc.

But that´s not possible anymore, only if you export you bookmarks once in a while to a html file.

I wonder how that's not a problem to a lot more people. I also use Go to parent folder extensions which helps a lot but doesn't solve the problem.

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