I'm using Firefox & Thunderbird on a Mac with Mac OS X version 10.5.8.

In Firefox, I right-clicked on the folder I wanted to email, and then left-clicked on "Copy". Then I opened Thunderbird and clicked on "Write". When the fresh email page appeared, I right-clicked in the message portion and then left-clicked on "Paste" - and all the bookmarks in my Firefox folder showed up, complete with folder and sub-folder names and indentations. Neat!

Hope that helps.

Hi airolg,

Wow, this worked! I normally work on a Mac too, but I am at my friend's place right now where I have it set up in her email program to receive email from my email account and I received the alert of your reply right away.

She has a PC, that I'm on now, and I'm using Firefox and "Windows Live Mail 2011" as the email client app on her computer, so I just tried your trick here and it works!... apparently on any platform with any email app... even on a funky PC with Windows 7.

Who thought it would be that simple?! No one else has replied about my question accept a guy in Australia who replied two minutes after I first posted the question the other night who wrote back telling me how to do a full HTML bookmarks file export... I think that was on the other Mozilla forum for Thunderbird.

What's very nice about your trick is that is pastes in the names that I have given the bookmarks as well.

I even sent this question to one of the Mozilla programmers that writes the code for Firefox in an email to him... somehow I got email replies from this guy once before when I posted a question on this forum and he and one other guy responded via email... I had kept his email address and sent him a couple other questions in the past couple of months, but I didn't get a reply from him on this question... he may just be busy and not responding or something because it seems that he, if anyone, would know this trick.

So this is possible without an add-on and it actually works in any email app, or probably even web mail, on Mac or PC.

Fine job airolg!

Thanks so much,

numetro

Hi, numetro -

Thanks for the applause! Actually, I'm a little embarrassed: I found your query because I was wondering the same thing. Because I didn't see any answer, I thought "What the heck, while I'm waiting for a good answer, I'll just try cut-&-pasting - and lo & behold, it worked! So I really don't deserve much credit.

Anyhow, I'm glad it worked for you too. I agree, it's neat that it copies the names you assign, and not just the URLs.

airolg

Hi airolg,

Don't be modest... sometimes the genius is in the simplicity and it is driven by curiosity.

Coincidentally, shortly after your reply last night, I received an email back from that Firefox programmer... he said he thought this would be a Firefox question and spoke as if he thought there should be a way to do this, but then referred me to a Knowledge Base article... he said...

"...But it seems to me to be a Firefox question about collecting the title and urls from the tabs, pasting them into an email and adding some additional descriptive information and sending it on it's way.

Tools for copying text and other content from web pages - MozillaZine Knowledge Base: This article offers some useful tips and aids for copying material from web pages. Whether clipping text for personal use, for emailing clips, for research, documentation, or for pasting into a blog, a wiki, or into HTML source you can choose a format suitable for each as plain text or other formatted code. After pasting from the clipboard in a chosen format, you can easily modify pasted content.

This article is really about documentation as plain text, HTML text, Wiki text, blog text and of particular interest to those doing research for school, or graduate papers. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Tools_for_copying_text_and_other_content_from_web_pages"

I think this is "programmer code" for, "I think I know but I'm not sure so here is a pre-printed article that is slightly off the subject."

Anyhow, it is funny how responses, useful and not, come synchronized in synchronicity, and other times randomly.

I thought I would test this trick within this post too, but when I pasted a folder of "Old San Francisco videos" bookmarks, containing about 30 URLs with my own custom names, into this forums reply interface, it just pasted the URLs themselves in a big glob with no line breaks... I think the HTML is a little funky in this interface because I noticed that the bold and italics feature and line breaks don't always work correctly here.

So I posted just 3 links to YouTube videos about old San Francisco, leading off with a 12 minute segment that was on 60 Minutes, the TV show, that originally aired just two weeks ago... you may have seen this and maybe you already know about this old San Francisco film.

There was an old film from San Francisco that was thought to be from 1905 that I found on the internet years ago that was called “A Trip Down Market Street, circa 1905”.

More recently, 3 months ago or so, I re-found this exact same video posted on YouTube, but with much better quality.

Then I continued to find YouTube to be a treasure-trove of old San Francisco videos, or SF videos of any sort, contrary to my prior opinion that YouTube is just for a bunch of numbskulls to post their whiner and show-off videos.

Then, more recently I found that the year that is posted for this “A Trip Down Market Street” video has been changed from 1905 to 1906... that’s where this 60 Minutes segment comes in to play.

Just two weeks ago, 60 Minutes ran a story about this very film (that I had been enjoying and finding various versions of earlier) that was originally estimated to have been made sometime in 1905, dated by the Library of Congress, but has now been dated far more precisely to just 4 days before the great earthquake in San Francisco on April 18th, 1906.

It was fascinating seeing how this one guy made a quest to date this film more precisely because he noticed that water on Market Street in the old film didn’t match the weather reports from the time of September 1905 when the film was originally approximated to have been made... the weather reports from September 1905 in San Francisco showed no rain.

This film has become greatly loved by San Franciscans, bay area people, and old film fans all over the world.

Every year on April 18th, at about 3:00 am in downtown SF at a significant gathering spot that formed after the actual quake, people and dignitaries gather for a full blown celebration ceremony for the earthquake including the 3 or 4 surviving people who were babies during the the disaster in 1906.

On the second link, titled, "9:15 - 4/14/1906 - FULL TO END - "A Trip Down Market Street", be sure to play it through to the best part in the last minute just before the streetcar turns around and looks back down Market Street... you catch a glimpse of (standing against the Ferry Building) an old man with a long beard that suddenly blows in the wind to the south-east and then the streetcar turns around to see boys jumping and waving and showing off for the new-fangled movie-film camera.

Then the third link is to an eerie side-by-side comparison of before and after the quake using this now infamous film and some post quake footage of a vaguely similar yet drastically different and tragic Market Street.

The original Market Street film shot on 4/14/1906, four days before the quake, was just barely saved when it was shipped to New York the day before the earthquake.

enjoy,

numetro

12:03 - 10/31/2010 - 60 MINUTES - "A TRIP DOWN MARKET STREET" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1G_qfKudAI

9:15 - 4/14/1906 - FULL TO END - "A Trip Down Market Street" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oubsaFBUcTc&feature=related

6:47 - 4/20/1906 - Before and After Earthquake - "A Trip Down Market Street" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TaxcXfSwdE&NR=1