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I've just noticed that I have a lot of bookmarks and it's time to clean them up.

However, I want to be able to record how many bookmarks I have before and after the cleanup, to judge how effective it was.

How can I find out how many bookmarks I have total, without counting them one by one?

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Open the bookmarks manager by pressing Ctrl+Shift+O (thanks to rugk), or by clicking the all bookmarks button in the bookmarks menu, then select the 'All Bookmarks' folder.

In the top-right hand corner, search for a character which appears in all bookmarks, e.g. . or /.

Press Ctrl+A to select all items. You can then see how many bookmarks you have total next to the 'items' indicator.

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    Does not work if one has defined a directory structure which means that using this method one would have to go directory by directory.
    – Venom
    Jan 26, 2017 at 0:44
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Open Bookmarks Manager then go to Import and Backup. Hover over Restore and the flyout reveals how many bookmarks you have.

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  • Wow, great. This is the actual solution and should actually be the accepted answer. It even shows you some chronological statistics!
    – rugk
    Apr 13, 2019 at 15:56
  • That said, this seems to also count folders and tags (?), because it says "XY _entries". Here is another solution (tl;dr: put . in the search)
    – rugk
    Apr 13, 2019 at 16:43
  • This counts "items" to be backed up, not bookmarks. In addition to bookmarks, "items" includes the folders themselves that contain the bookmarks. Therefore, it's not a valid answer to the question since it doesn't actually count solely bookmarks, and results in an inflated number.
    – Hashim Aziz
    Apr 13, 2019 at 16:53

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