We adore Firefox, though it is not perfect. And what in this world is? Happily some guys never stop developing add-ons to make our experience with firefox bookmarks management convenient.
Here is a short manual with most useful Firefox bookmarks add-ons.
1. SortPlaces
An absolute tool for sorting Firefox bookmarks both in manual and automatic modes. Features multiple sorting functions for Toolbar, Menu and Unfiled bookmarks. Two-levels sorting (including folders order, queries, livemarks, etc) can be applied for every. A special function keeps selected links from sorting.
Homepage: http://www.andyhalford.com/sortplaces/index.html
2. Tidy Favorites
A smart tool for Firefox bookmarks, successfully supporting a visual approach. Leave text-based links behind – welcome thumbnail images of your favorite sites. Any area of the site can be viewed as a thumbnail. It is handily resized and managed in just a few clicks.
Sorting place for temporarily bookmarks is added. All links are stored safely in a centralized database and can be easily synchronized.
The add-on is totally compatible with other web browsers: IE, Chrome and Opera. Portable version on a USB drive is provided.
Homepage: http://www.TidyFavorites.com/
3. Video Bookmarks
Crazy tool for video addicts designed by myVidster. A social bookmarking and backup web service for searching, saving, managing and sharing videos from any video host.
Video clips can be downloaded from multiple video hosts (Youtube, blip.tv, Veoh, Vimeo, Dailymotion, etc), web pages or weblogs. The user can quickly create a favorite videos database, hold it on the server reliably and share with a social group.
Homepage: http://www.myvidster.com/
4. Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar
The tool excellently provides one single function: orders Bookmarks Toolbar in several rows depending on the user’s preferences. Working with numerous Firefox bookmarks becomes more handy soon.
Forget about the horror of guessing sites names from one letter left. Now all tabs are vividly presented. Though the number of rows is limited.
Homepage: http://space.geocities.yahoo.co.jp/gl/alice0775
5. Smart Bookmarks Bar
This add-on provides another effotless way to clear up the problem with the lack of space on your Firefox bookmarks bar. All the bookmarks are hidden under icons, their titles emerge on top when you hover a mouse over the necessary one. Users can save many bookmarks there, and toolbar still looks rather clean.
Homepage: http://remy.juteau.free.fr/spip/spip.php?article2
6. Bookmark Duplicate Detector
As you might guess from the title, this tool detects duplicate Firefox bookmarks when new one is added. It also informs you where the duplicated bookmark is placed. You are to select the one which you remove, and which one you let stay.
The add-on also let discover and manage duplicates among already saved URLs.
Homepage: http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/
7. Hide Unvisited
A useful add-on to make your address bar clean from those links which you don’t visit anymore. Hides bookmarks of websites suffered from deleting or clearing history. It was designed mainly for users who appreciate “nothing extra” approach to AwesomeBar. Already upgraded to Firefox version 3.5.
Homepage: http://ed.agadak.net/
8. GMarks
A handy tool to synchronize your firefox bookmarks with Google Bookmarks, allowing their swift transfer from Firefox to Google and vice versa. The program is absolutely separate from Firefox bookmarks but is treating them nicely: never hiding or losing any.
Filters add labels and descriptions to new bookmarks, they are simply edited and managed.
Homepage: http://groups.google.com/group/GMarks
As you understand, web is a perfect place to get useful extensions for various purposes. If you can’t find any required, share your complaints with blogosphere. And soon someone will certainly help you with a new Firefox bookmarks tool.
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