Bookmarks in Firefox

Bookmarks (called favorites in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer) are links to web pages that make it easy to get back to your favorite places. This commodity covers the nuts of making and managing Firefox bookmarks.

Table of Contents

  • 1 How do I bookmark a page?
  • two How exercise I change the proper noun or location of a bookmark?
  • three How do I find my bookmarks?
  • 4 How do I add the Bookmarks Carte du jour button to the toolbar?
  • five How exercise I organize my bookmarks?
  • 6 How to plow on the Bookmarks Toolbar
    • 6.1 Other Bookmarks folder
  • vii How to use Keywords with Bookmarks
  • 8 How practice I import bookmarks from some other browser or profile?
  • nine Additional resources

How practise I bookmark a page?

To bookmark a page, just click on the star in the address bar.

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The star will plough blue when the folio is bookmarked and a window will pop up and then you can name, move or tag your bookmark.

To bookmark a page, just click on the star in the accost bar.

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The star will plow blue when the page is bookmarked and a window will pop up and then you can name, movement or tag your bookmark.

Note: If the star is missing from the address bar, click on the Page actions (iii-dot) carte du jour button.
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Right-click Hold downward the control cardinal while you click on the menu entry for and and so click on .

To bookmark all open tabs at once: Select from the Bookmarks menu.
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Right-click on any of the tabs, cull from the context menu, and then right-click on whatsoever tab and select . Give the new bookmarks folder a name and choose which binder to store it in. Click Add together Bookmarks to finish.

  • You can also employ the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + D command + Shift + D to bookmark all open tabs.

How do I alter the name or location of a bookmark?

  1. To edit the details of your bookmark, click the star a second time to open the Edit This Bookmark Edit Bookmark dialog box.
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    • In the Edit This Bookmark Edit bookmark box you lot can change whatever of these details:
      • Name: This is the name that Firefox displays for the bookmark in menus.
      • Folder Location : Cull what folder to shop your bookmark in by picking one from the driblet-down menu (for example, the Bookmarks Card or Bookmarks Toolbar). In that drop-down carte, you tin can as well select to brandish a list of all bookmarks folders.
      • Tags: You lot can use tags to aid you search through and organize your bookmarks. For more than information, meet Bookmark Tags - Categorize bookmarks to make them like shooting fish in a barrel to find.
  2. When yous have finished editing, click Done Save to shut the box.

If yous don't desire to see this editor when saving a bookmark, remove the checkmark from Show editor when saving.

How do I find my bookmarks?

Address Bar Search
You lot can search pages y'all take bookmarked past typing its proper noun in the accost bar. As you blazon, a list of web pages that you've bookmarked, tagged and visited will appear. Bookmarked pages volition have a star side by side to them. Just click 1 of the pages and you'll be taken there instantly. To acquire more than, see Address bar autocomplete suggestions in Firefox.

Bookmarks Toolbar
Firefox's Bookmarks toolbar gives you quick access to oftentimes-used bookmarks. For new users, bookmarks are placed by default hither.

Firefox Sidebar and Menu
Yous tin can view and access all of your bookmarks from the Firefox Sidebar and from the Menu bar menu, if the Carte bar is enabled.

The Bookmarks Bill of fare button is not shown by default but you can add it to the toolbar using the Library button:

  1. Click the Library button 57 library icon, and so click .
  2. Click .
  3. Click .

The Bookmarks Menu push button Bookmark Menu icon (star on tray) should appear side by side to the Library button.

Add Bookmarks Menu button to Toolbar

To remove the button, repeat the steps higher up and, after clicking , click .

The Bookmarks Menu button is non shown by default but y'all can add it by customizing your Firefox toolbar:

  1. Click on the carte push Fx57Menu Fx89menuButton , then click and select .
    • A special tab volition open up which allows you to drag and drop items in or out of the overflow menu and the toolbar.
  2. Drag the Bookmarks Card Bookmark Menu icon (star on tray) Bookmarks Menu button - Proton push to the toolbar.
  3. Click Washed.

To remove the button, use the above steps to drag the Bookmarks Carte push button out of the toolbar.

How do I organize my bookmarks?

The Library window lets yous view and organize all of your bookmarks. To open the Bookmarks Library window: Click on the bill of fare push fx57menu Fx89menuButton to open the menu panel. Click the Library 57 library icon button on your toolbar. (If you don't see information technology, click the bill of fare fx57menu button, and so click click the carte du jour fx89menuButton button.) Click then click the Evidence All Bookmarks Manage Bookmarks bar at the bottom.

Note: You can also use a keyboard shortcut to quickly open your Bookmarks Library.

Past default, the bookmarks you lot make volition be located in the Other Bookmarks binder. Select information technology in the sidebar of the Library window to run into the bookmarks you've fabricated. Double-clicking a bookmark volition open it.

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See these manufactures for details on how to manage a giant list of bookmarks:

  • Sort your bookmarks to speedily find the ones yous desire
  • Use bookmark folders to organize your bookmarks
  • How exercise I delete a bookmark?

While you are in the Library window you can drag bookmarks into other folders, such as the Bookmarks Menu folder. Those bookmarks volition and so appear in the Firefox Sidebar and Menu bar or toolbar Bookmarks carte du jour. Bookmarks in the Bookmarks Toolbar folder will appear in the Bookmarks Toolbar, if information technology'southward turned on.

The Bookmarks Toolbar is a handy place to add your favorite bookmarks.

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To enable the Bookmarks Toolbar:

Bookmarks Toolbar Menu
  • Click the carte du jour at the tiptop of the screen, go down to and select . The bill of fare options , , and will be available for you to choose when you want the Bookmarks Toolbar to be visible.
  • Y'all tin too use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + Shift + B command + Shift + B to show or hide the Bookmarks Toolbar.

See Show or hide the Bookmarks toolbar to learn more than.

Other Bookmarks folder

You may will run across an Other Bookmarks folder icon at the terminate of the Bookmarks toolbar if the Other Bookmarks folder in your Library contains any bookmarks. This makes information technology easier to notice bookmarks stored in that folder. To remove the Other Bookmarks folder icon from the Bookmarks toolbar, see Remove the Other Bookmarks folder from the Bookmarks Toolbar.

How to use Keywords with Bookmarks

Another way to access your bookmarks is by using keywords. When you assign a keyword to a bookmark, you can just type the keyword into the address bar and press Enter Return to open the bookmark.

To assign a keyword to a bookmark:

  1. Open up the Library window and select the bookmark.
  2. Click the keyword field at the bottom of the window.
  3. Type your desired keyword.

The keyword may contain letters, digits and special characters (for instance: - _ ' " , . : ; = / \ ( ) [ ] { } ! & @ ~). It must not incorporate spaces and must not start or end with these characters: ? * ^ $ % # +

The keyword must not exist the aforementioned every bit a search engine's keyword. For case, if a search engine has the keyword @chiliad, the bookmark's keyword cannot exist @g, but it can be g.

If the called keyword was already assigned to another bookmark the old bookmark volition be replaced by the new one.

Annotation: Outside of the Library, you can access the keyword field from the context carte by right-clicking holding downwards the command key while you click the bookmark, and and so selecting .

How do I import bookmarks from another browser or profile?

Firefox lets you import bookmarks from other browsers installed on your computer. It also lets you import other data, such as browsing history and saved passwords, from some of these browsers. To larn more than, come across Import information from another browser.

Additional resources

To acquire more about getting the most out of your bookmarks, see these articles:

  • Bookmarks section of Keyboard Shortcuts to come across how you lot can quickly access dissimilar bookmark features.
  • Bookmark Tags - Categorize bookmarks to brand them like shooting fish in a barrel to find
  • Prepare upwardly Sync to share bookmarks, open up tabs and more with another profile, estimator or mobile device
  • Restore bookmarks from backup or move them to another reckoner

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