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How can I find the parent folder?

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nu-user
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When I search in the Bookmarks Library and find a bookmark I am looking for, how can I find the parent folder? Thank you.

When I search in the Bookmarks Library and find a bookmark I am looking for, how can I find the parent folder? Thank you.

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If you have found the bookmark via a search, but do not know what folder it is in then you can open this bookmark in a tab. You can open the bookmark in Offline mode (File > Work Offline) to prevent opening the link from internet. You can click the blue highlighted star to open the "Edit This Bookmark" dialog. This doorhanger shows details (properties) including in what folder the bookmark is located. You can open the full folder tree via the Down arrow button that is positioned outside the folder field and scroll down (drag the scroll thumb or use the mouse scroll wheel) until you see the selected folder.

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Bacchus66
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gbell12 said

jscher2000 said
Firefox is designed not to allow duplicates

Ah, but there are so many ways to make a duplicate. Three come to mind:

1) Copy/paste within the Bookmark Manager 2) Bookmark All Tabs when one of them is already bookmarked 3) Click/drag from the address bar down in to the bookmarks (I think)

On top of that, when dragging from the search area, Firefox now ONLY copies. Inherently creating dupes instead of moving. And it's not just a default, ctrl+drag and shift+drag don't affect this in any way. It's always a copy. This is true now since at least 58.

It's bad enough that the new extension format killed off my two favorite extensions (all in one sidebar and add bookmark here 2), both of which made managing bookmarks SO much easier than the base Firefox library, even with the new sidebar. But now they are making it harder again.

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spevman
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I found archived versions of both the Go To and Show Parent Folder extensions. I've uploaded copies here:

https://www117.zippyshare.com/v/Yep4dmW6/file.html

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