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How do I create default bookmarks in Firefox 17 ESR
I've started with an installation of Firefox 17.0.6 ESR on 64Bit Windows 7 and set the bookmarks bar the way I want.
I've used the 'Export Bookmarks to HTML' option and stored the file as ...
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Transferring bookmarks to iPad
I would like to know some of the options available to me to transfer my Firefox bookmarks from a laptop running Linux into my iPad. I do not have access to an English based Windows computer or to a ...
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Firefox Live Bookmarks - how to manually create?
I need to manually create a Live Boomark in Firefox by specifying the URL myself.
There are no options to do this inside the Bookmarks menu or the "Show all Bookmarks" / Library window. You can ...
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How can I download the pages referenced by me bookmarks as html files?
I have lots of bookmarks (guitar chords of songs) , saved in Google Chrome, and also a nice program called XMarks
It works great, but one problem is, some of the old webpages is getting deleted, so I ...
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How do I increase the available bookmark folder limits in chrome
As another user asked about firefox:
Increase limit of bookmark folders in Firefox?
I would like to increase the number of folders that you are presented with when you press the add bookmark star in ...
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Can i sync my firefox bookmarks without Xmarks or such
I am happy with the firefox sync feature. I don't want to use Xmarks.
Can I syn them locally? Why is there no chrome addon to use the Mozilla servers to sync?
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Is it possible to rename tags in Firefox?
I am using firefox 17.0.4.
I have quite a large set of bookmarks and have tagged them based on topic.
Recently I found that some of the tags I have marked as UMI; which should have been UML.
Is ...
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How to put “Tags” to Firefox's bookmark toolbar?
When I press CTRL+SHIFT+O there is a "Tags" object containing all of my tags on the left. I want to use this as a folder on my bookmarks toolbar, so I can easily browse all bookmarks with the specific ...
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importing Google Chrome bookmarks
I have a computer that does not boot.
I have access to the hard drive and all the files, however.
Is it possible to salvage the google chrome bookmarks and import them into another google chrome?
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How to import (and possibly sync) Chrome bookmarks into Google Bookmarks?
This question has already been asked for Firefox (Can Firefox Bookmarks sync with Google Bookmarks?) and another questions that asked for Chrome/Firefox was marked as duplicate of the first question ...
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Opera Bookmarks to Chrome Malfunction
I am attempting to move my Opera bookmarks to Chrome. I created an HTML file for the bookmarks while I was in Opera. I looked at the new file, and saw that the bookmarks are there, but they are not ...
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Automatically bookmark last viewed page
This excludes RSS feed A.K.A Live Bookmark. I am looking for a bookmark[let] that gets updated automatically so that it directs to the last viewed page for a given website. I am guessing something ...
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Is it possible to open multiple tabs but not load the URLs?
When I'm causally browsing, some pages I go to I want to view them later but I don't want them bookmarked and now and again I will bookmark all these tabs into a single folder in a backup folder, the ...
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How to build an online video collection? [closed]
I wonder if there is a software/website that enables me to create a collection of online videos, and video playlists gathered from any tube website (youtube, dailymotion, cnet, mashable, bbc, etc. ...
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Bookmark a dynamic link in chrome
I have a link http://myinviteLink.net
but when enter http://myinviteLink.net in chrome url bar, and press enter, it changes into
http://regularLink.net
I do not wish to bookmark ...
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Rockmelt Browser not logging in
I have IE, Chrome, and Rockmelt on my pc. I use Rockmelt consistently. Up until today, I had no problems at all. Today morning, my rockmelt was logged out (which is unusual because it is always logged ...
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Notepad++ - file bookmarks working like web page bookmarks in web browser?
There are line bookmarks in Notepad++ but I have a large number of files (100+) I need to visit from time to time, just like web pages. I can't have all of them open as this would create too many ...
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Cannot find IE favorites in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Favorites
Acording to this page, my IE favorites are supposed to be stored in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\Favorites. However, they are not there. When I tried to import them into Firefox, nothing got imported either. ...
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How can I make Firefox Menu and Toolbar stop flashing?
After a recent Firefox update, all of my menus and bookmarks toolbar have begun to flash when they're accessed. The content shows for a moment, but then I only see the outline and whatever was ...
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Is there a way to make Safari open a bookmark in a new tab automatically without a keystroke?
The only way I can see to open the selected bookmark in a new tab is with a keystroke (control-click, or control-shift-click). I'd like to set Safari to automatically open a selected bookmark in a new ...
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How to view all my Google Chrome bookmarks, sorted by date?
I want to see a flat list of all my bookmarks in Google Chrome, sorted from the oldest one to the newest one.
How can I achieve this ?
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Is there any easy way to sync your bookmarks using only an ftp-server and some app?
I realize there is already this good question How to sync bookmarks between Firefox, Chrome, and Safari on multiple computers? about bookmark sync, but I am looking for a different solution.
It is ...
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How to search within specific websites at once?
Is there any way to search through specific websites at the same time ??
I mean , if i want to search for a movie, song or whatever
Can I search for it, only through my Bookmarks Using any search ...
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Chrome - import settings from old Chrome/Firefox profile directory
Is there any way to import settings (mainly bookmarks and passwords) from old Chrome/Firefox profile? That is I've Google and Firefox user data directories from my other computer from which I'd like ...
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Account-specific bookmarks in Chrome
Is it possible to have only my work-related bookmarks show up when I log in to my work Chrome account and only my personal bookmarks show up when I am logged in to my personal Chrome account? Now ...
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Firefox: How can I use “Bookmark this link” to send links directly to “Unsorted bookmarks” folder?
I actually do not use "Bookmark this link" intensively, but sometimes I have to. Unfortunately this feature always uses the default target location, "Bookmarks menu". It's not so bad, but I personally ...
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Looking to convert Delicious export to a TiddlyWiki
Methods that access your Delicious feed are limited by the site itself to (I think) the 300 most recent bookmarks. I have around 1,200 bookmarks. I've managed to find an XSL script (here and here), ...
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How do I show full names of folders that contain bookmarks in the Google Chrome Bookmark Bar?
I have Google Chrome installed on Ubuntu and I have made a number of folders of bookmarks placed within my bookmark bar. The problem is that some of the folder's names are abbreviated like "Ru---" ...
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Tagged firefox bookmarks in chrome
I've got a big tagged bookmarks collection in firefox. Is there any way to preserve tag information after importing them to chrome?
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How to add keyword to bookmark in Chrome?
In Firefox, I had bookmarks with keywords, so I could easily search for stuff. When I imported these bookmarks to Chrome - keywords still work. But when adding new bookmark, I can't find a way to ...
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Signing in removed bookmarks
I haven't used Chrome's sign-in option yet, but my friend just came over and signed in on my computer to gain access to some bookmarks he wanted to show me.
We signed him out, deleted his account and ...
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Why are bookmarks showing up in recently bookmarked when I did't bookmark them in Firefox?
Bookmarks are showing up in recently bookmarked that I have NOT bookmarked! Am I hacked? Firefox is my browser where I have my bookmarks.
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Why my bookmarks on Firefox for Android are not sync. to my desktop?
I have paired my desktop Firefox and Android Firefox. I found the bookmarks I added on my desktop can be sync. to my phone; but the bookmarks I added on my phone will not be sync. to my desktop. Any ...
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Chrome bookmarks are duplicating over and over after each sync … How to avoid?
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I use several pcs of Win7 and Ubuntu which Chrome-synced with my Google account.
I am using Chrome since it's v.1. at that time it had not "sync"option. I used xbookmark or something like ...
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Is it possible to use a Windows environment variable in a Chrome bookmark?
I use a software library whom I often refer to the documentation pages.
Those are html pages, therefore I created several bookmarks to quickly access to them.
However, when the library version ...
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Exporting Firefox bookmarks as separate .URLs while preserving timestamps
I have a large number of Firefox bookmarks that I want to remove and archive as shortcut files (.URL). But I would also like to preserve the date they were added as the files' last modified dates.
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Turn Javascript into bookmark or bookmarklet?
I have Created One script that shows password on hover just like windows 8 on eye click.
i have made this functionality through javascript with following code.
function ...
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Is there an alternative to diigo bookmarklet service for your own server? [closed]
i'm a heavy user of diigo's bookmark service. I think it is the best bookmarking tool above all other tools at the moment (compared to delicious, google+, etc.)...
Another day i came around owncloud ...
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Storing Current Page for PDF eBooks
I am reading through several PDF eBooks on 2 different Windows PCs and 1 Android tablet. I would like to come up with an easy way to "bookmark" my current page that will work on all environments. So ...
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How can I override certain display options in Adobe Reader?
Some PDF files can specify how they are to be displayed when first opened. I know that you can override the layout and zoom under preferences in Adobe Reader, but there are two more display options I ...
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Open the ClearBrowserData bookmark in Chrome, in a new window
I am trying to create a bookmark that will open the ClearBrowserData in Chrome in a new window, so far I have managed to get this,
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Emacs: remembering last position of cursor
Is there a way to save a file so that when reopening it, it brings me to the last known position of my cursor?
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Firefox duplcate library entries
When I open my Firefox bookmarks library, I see two duplicates of the All bookmarks group, along with duplicates of the History,Downloads, and Tags items. The duplicates mirror the actual entries, and ...
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How to disable Firefox Live Bookmarks?
Before this, rss pages were displayed in the browser window with a nice formatting as a content.
On an rss page, I accidentally checked Always use Live Bookmarks to subscribe to podcasts. and then ...
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Chrome Bookmarks without sign in
Is there a way in Windows 7 to retain bookmarks between Chrome sessions without signing in each time. I hate not being in charge of this behavior and being forced to sign in.
I have switched from ...
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How can I retrieve Google Chrome bookmarks?
Here is what happened: At first, I upgraded Mozilla Firefox browser to it's latest version.
Then, I realized that all my bookmarks in Google Chrome were gone.
In my panic, I imported the ...
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Link to Firefox bookmarks folder by hyperlink in Windows 7?
I often search for a certain term in the internet and then end up with a lot of open tabs in Firefox 17 (Windows 7) containing interesting information.
For accessing this information later, I can ...
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Fuzzy find bookmarks (including folders) in Chrome?
Is there a way (built-in or through a third-party extension) to do a fuzzy find on my Chrome bookmarks and their folders? I've been able to come pretty close with just the bookmarks, but it is limited ...
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How to save or keep Firefox boomarks list as a separate file?
I want to keep Firefox bookmarks list as a separate file, on another partition, if it is possible.
Or is there a way to create some kind of backup of the bookmarks list ?
I want to prevent losing all ...
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Google Chrome bookmarks bar addition order
Ctrl+D lets me quickly add a bookmark to the end of the bookmarks bar, although I'd like to add it at the beginning, so that it's immediately visible. What's the solution?
