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Bookmarks menu not always expanding

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Bookmarks menu > folders normally expand as you roll over them. However, this is only happening with some of my folders and not with others. Seems like a bug. Anyone else got this problem?

Bookmarks menu > folders normally expand as you roll over them. However, this is only happening with some of my folders and not with others. Seems like a bug. Anyone else got this problem?

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I had the same problem. I solved it by shortening some very long names of the bookmarks in the parent folder (the one containing the folder that was not expanding). Try it and let me know.

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I had the same problem. I solved it by shortening some very long names of the bookmarks in the parent folder (the one containing the folder that was not expanding). Try it and let me know.

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Yeah, I just recently discovered that myself. Thanks a lot for getting back to me!

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hi - how would i easily find the bookmark with the very long name... so stopping my pop-up bookmark menu to open "expanded"

i have 100s of bookmarks.

thankyou

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Maybe save (export) the bookmarks to an HTML file and open that file in a Firefox tab.

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thankyou again cor-el nice thinking outside box!


I renamed the longest bookmark... restarted firefox that did not resolve


maybe i have more than 1 "long" bookmark name

what is the length of "long" in FF world? thankyou

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Here is a bookmarklet to tag names longer than a maximum length that you can use on the HTML file opened in a tab.
You need to create a bookmark with the location set to the JavaScript code or run the code in the Scratchpad.


javascript:(function(){var e=document.getElementsByTagName('A'),E,M=50,i;M=prompt('Maximum Length?',M);for(i=0;E=e[i];i++){N=E.innerHTML;if(N.length>M){E.innerHTML='[!'+N.length+'!]'+N;E.style.color='red';E.style.fontWeight='bold';}}})();