In Firefox, you need to work with the Show All Bookmarks utility found
in the Bookmarks pulldown. You can also get to it with the
control+shift+o shortcut.
You may not find it as easy to work with as File Explorer, but at least
for me, it doesn't take me 8 hours to work with my book marks in Firefox.
On 24/12/16 01:50, Harry Brown wrote:
> Hi all,
> Running a windows 10 desktop, using jaws 17.
> I've been using internet explorer, for years now. But I'll tell you,
> firefox is sure a faster browser, when loading web pages.
> Here's the problem. In firefox, you have bookmarks, just like any other
> browser, but you won't find the folder for them, because they're hidden,
> so first, you have to tell windows to show hidden files and folders,
> which I did.
> Here's the darn problem. Even if you get it to do that, it's in
> c:\users\ then for me, it was in my name, which is my account, then
> click on app data, then click on roaming, then click on mozilla, then
> click on firefox, then click on profiles, then book marks backup, it's
> the first icon in the profiles folder, but the folder is not named
> bookmarks, and, it has all the bookmarks, but they are only named a
> date, no bookmark name like a web page name like college football
> schedule. I hate it, because these bookmarks are not like internet
> explorers favorites. Folks, you can just find the favorites folder in
> internet explorer so easily, and it's got your favorites as you have
> them, nice and alphabitized. I can go in there when I want, take things
> out, put things in, and I can name them what I want, and the name is
> there when I come back to it.
> I would love to use firefox, but the way they do folders, forget it, I
> don't have 8 hours to find folders, and find bookmarks that are not even
> named.
> Like I said, internet explorer is absolutely slower than firefox, and it
> gets stuck with jaws, so much.
> I envy these people who can use firefox, and they got their firefox
> bookmarks folder on the desktop.
> Harry
>
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