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Printing list of Bookmarks from Firefox Bookmarks Manager

Apr 10, 2005 1:52AM PDT

I'm wanting to organize my Firefox Bookmarks, which are scattered all over creationg right now. To do this, I would like to go to Bookmarks Manager, open all the minuses, and then print off the whole thing. Is there a way I can do this?

I know there are other ways for people with a different type of brain that I have to do this, but my brain require that it be able to look at a list of all my bookmarks and it promises it will then try to organzie them in some rational fashion, though it refuses to offer any guarantees.
grandpaw

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I was surprised...
Apr 10, 2005 1:58AM PDT

When I used the bookmark editor and did a SELECT ALL, COPY and was able to Edit, Paste it all into my Word processor from http://www.openoffice.org

Did you try that?

Bob

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Beware: I'm starting to froth at the mouth
Apr 10, 2005 10:18AM PDT

I'm not familiar with Bookmark Editor and don't know how to get to it. I vaguely familiar with OpenOffice (after reading some about it); I have the notion that it is a alternative to the MS Works and WordPerfect that I have.

Either Bookmarks or I have gone crazy. I have an icon on my desktop entitled Bookmarks. When I open it, I get a list of all of my Bookmarks as of some date in the past, so that it doesn't have a lot of recent bookmarks I have entered.

I can print this list and it is formatted in a way that I would like to use it to help me organize my bookmarks. But I don't know how to bring it up to date.

Earlier today, when I had a Firefox window on my screen, and clicked Bookmarks on the toolbar, and then clicked Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, I got a submenu with three choices, Bookmarks (with an open folder as the icon), Bookmarks (again, this time with an icon I can't make out), and Add Bookmarks Here (with no icon). When I clicked on the first Bookmarks, I got a submenu with four items, CUntitledET Reviews (I guess because I had a CNET Review page on my screen), Bookmarks (with that icon I can't make out), Add Bookmarks Here, and Open In Tabs. When I clicked on Bookmarks (with that icon I can't make out), I got that same list that I got when I opened the Bookmarks icon on my desktop.

I'm wondering why that list does not contain recent Bookmarks I have entered and that are on the list that opens up when I click Bookmarks on the Toolbar.

And I'm wondering if I have to enter each of these recent Bookmarks in Add Bookmark Here in order to get it on the list my Bookmark icon produces.

And I'm wondering why, when I now click on the Bookmark Toolbar Folder, instead of the three choices I got this morning, I get only the Add Bookmark Here button and not the other two I got earlier, that is, Bookmarks (with the open folder icon) and Bookmarks (with the icon I can't make out.

And I'm also wondering why the very nice Firefox people have it in for me.

My real question is: how can I update the list I get when I open the desktop Bookmarks icon so that it will include all the recent bookmarks I have entered, that is, all the bookmarks that show up on the list that I get when I click Bookmarks on the toolbar?

To try to clarify, if that is possible. When I click on Bookmars on the toolbar, I get a list that includes all of my bookmars, up to date. But when I go to the top of that list and click on Bookmarks Toolbar Folder, I get the old list.

All those wonderings I have are minor; I'll just add them to the list of hundreds of other wonderings I have come up with in my computer travels.

For what it's worth, the list I get when I click the Bookmarks icon on my desktop shows that it is at file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner/Desktop/BOOKMARKS.html . However, I can't find that file independently of clicking on the Bookmark desktop icon.

I have the feeling that if you understand what I have said, perhaps we should go to treatment together.

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oops sorry! I just reread your post and
Apr 12, 2005 7:29AM PDT

to tell you the truth I Dont have the slightest clue as to what your problem is!

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Solved
Apr 13, 2005 11:51AM PDT

I posted my problem to the Firefox forum and was told I could get the current Firefox Toolbar Folder by taking this path:

"file:///c:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner/Application%20Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/rwta6q2i.default/bookmarks.html"

That is the address of the folder. I get to the folder by opening Explore, then my C drive, Then Documents and Settings, then Owner, then Application Data, then Mozille, then Firefox, then Profiles, then rwta6q2i,default, then scroll down to bookmars html and click on it. That should open the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.

Surely there are easier ways to get to that folder but I have no idea what they are. When I click on Bookmarks in the toolbar, that opens a menu in which Bookmarks Toolbar Folder is the fourth item. When I clicked on it a few days ago, and clicked on it again in the resulting menu and again in the resulting menu, I was able to open that folder. But now the only button I get when I click on the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder in the Bookmarks menu is for Add Bookmark Here. I have no idea why the change.

Hopefully, someone will come along and show how that folder is easier to get to than the way I have described, but the way I have described did permit me to get to that folder and print, which was the problem I brought to the forum in my initial post.

grandpaw