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UNDO SORT BY NAME IN TOOLBAR

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I SORTED BY NAME AND CAN NOT UNDO, JUST UPGRADED YESTERDAY, HAVE 5.0 FOR MAC OS X IT IS A MESS NOW I TRIED RESTORING TO DEFAULT-BUT THAT MADE IT WORSE, I DO NOT WANT FOLDER ICONS

I SORTED BY NAME AND CAN NOT UNDO, JUST UPGRADED YESTERDAY, HAVE 5.0 FOR MAC OS X IT IS A MESS NOW I TRIED RESTORING TO DEFAULT-BUT THAT MADE IT WORSE, I DO NOT WANT FOLDER ICONS

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Remove folder and bookmark icons from Bookmark Toolbar, Sorting Bookmarks, and possibly undoing sort by name:

I can't think of a logical order within folders that works better than alphabetical in most cases -- one exception is a bookmarks folder containing bookmarks to create a set of app-tabs in a specific order controlled by prefixing by numbers or many bookmark separators. The bookmarks toolbar is a possible exception but I have all of my bookmarks automatically sorted. I make use of bookmark separators to group bookmarks so that bookmarks are sorted within each group but not moved to another group. Here is a picture of my Bookmark Toolbar

http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/icons/fx5_before_after.png

Looks something like: [boldface are Folders (blue) vs. Bookmarks (red)]

*5.0* _ Blogs Chaos SUMO | # + < > G GV H L Pz Sp Wi | K S sw| nBk Sc BF BugsBML| ...
names are kept very short to save space on the toolbar 1-3 chars for most of them. The bookmarks there are used like toolbar buttons and they are all bookmarklets (contain JavaScript).

The "K" folder on my bookmarks toolbar contains mostly keyword shortcuts most of which are bookmarklets, along with references to support and mozillazine articles. So I don't really need many bookmarks showing on the toolbar.

The folder and bookmark favicons are removed by a style managed by the Stylish extension:

The Sorting of bookmarks is by an extension, you can exclude any of the three major folders like the Bookmarks Toolbar. Don't use the automatic sort though, switch it to manual. Sorting takes about 3-5 seconds for all of my bookmarks.

Another place that I use bookmark separators is at the end of huge folders, so that I can review naming, content and keyword assigned before allowing into the main portion of a folder.

You might be able to see your original bookmark order by going to the Library list ("Ctrl+Shift+B") and changing the order there on the "Views" menu > Sort > to "Unsorted". ("Command+Shift+B" on a Mac for the Library List)


For additional help working with your bookmarks and history see

Modified by David McRitchie