Using a bookmark search: What folder is my bookmark in? Possible bug
I organize my bookmarks in folders. To tidy up my bookmark folder structure I sometimes search for a bookmark to see what folder it is in.
The suggested way to do is is to open the bookmark and then click on the star (blue on Mac) right of the address bar. There is field called folder. This sometimes works, but many of my bookmarks are not recognized as bookmarked (i.e. the star is not coloured), though I found them through the bookmark search. Bookmarking them by clicking the star creates a duplicate bookmark in the folder "Other bookmarks".
I am using Firefox 52.0.2 on a Macbook Pro Late 2013 running OSX 10.11.6 El Capitan.
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Show Parent Folder 2.1.1-signed.1-signed by White Alice0775 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/show-parent-folder/ Show Parent Folder Show Parent Folder in list view of Library.
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Modified by FredMcD
Hi Peter, unfortunately there is not a good solution for this right now. Hopefully someone will create a new add-on that solves the problem.
Until then, if you have a lot of things to research, I suggest trying an HTML-format export of your bookmarks as a tool to find misplaced bookmarks. You can export your bookmarks to an HTML format file, open the HTML format file as a web page in Firefox (in a tab) and then use Find (Ctrl+f) within the page to discover the current location of a bookmark or folder by title.
See: Export Firefox bookmarks to an HTML file to back up or transfer bookmarks
The layout is "flat" so it's hard to see the "nesting" of folders, and you have to hover the titles to see the URLs. To address that, you can "hack" the appearance of the page as follows:
(A) Select this entire script and right-click > Copy it:
var s = document.createElement("style");
s.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
var t = 'dl > dt > dl { margin-left: 2em; } a[href] { text-decoration: none !important; display: inline-block; margin-bottom: 0.25em; } a[href^="javascript:"]::after { content: " (bookmarklet)"; font-style: italic; color: #000; } a:not([href^="javascript:"])::after, a[href^="file"]::after { content: " (" attr(href) ")"; font-family: sans-serif; color: #000; }';
s.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
document.body.appendChild(s);
(B) In the tab with the exported bookmark document displayed, open Firefox's Web Console in the lower part of the tab using either Ctrl+Shift+k or the Developer menu.
(C) Click next to the caret (>>) at the bottom of the Web Console and paste the script (Ctrl+v or right-click > Paste) and then press Enter to run it.
If it worked, you will see the page addresses show up in black text next to the blue page titles, nesting of folder contents, and slightly more vertical spacing. (Unfortunately, the URLs are not searchable, just viewable.)
You can close the web console now, there is a small "x" on the right end of the bar listing Inspector, Console, etc., or the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+i might do it.
FredMcD said
Show Parent Folder 2.1.1-signed.1-signed by White Alice0775 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/show-parent-folder/ Show Parent Folder Show Parent Folder in list view of Library.
Hi Fred, unfortunately that extension was removed from the Add-ons site. (I don't know why.)
Shoot. Thanks jscher2000.
Thanks for the answers, guys. I will check the script and maybe try out to develop a little add-on that resolves this problem. Have a good one!