OK then copy the bookmark address, use Ctrl+L ; Ctrl+A; Ctrl+C.
The bookmarks side bar opens with Ctrl+B

Use the bookmarks manger or bookmarks toolbar.

• Use bookmark folders to organize your bookmarks
• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-bookmarks-to-save-and-organize-websites

John99: Thanks for trying to help me. Let me try to clarify: when online on any website page, click on "Bookmark this Page." The window opens. Under the heading "Edit this Bookmark" is "Remove Bookmark." Under that is the Name heading and under that the Folder heading. To the right of the folder name is a down arrow. When you click on that this small rectangular window shows "Bookmarks Toolbar" and "Bookmarks Menu," with about 8 lines of page listings showing in the window. How do I make that window open up vertically so that the eight lines that I can see expands so I can see all of my listed bookmarks, with category headings and everything, so the list fills the screen from top to bottom. I don't like scrolling and only being able to see a few listings at a time. Thanks, jimmcacoe

The dialogue box on the star tooltip does not expand it has to be scrolled.

The bookmarks manager and the bookmarks toolbar are both full screen height.

The bookmarks manager has a left and right pane. The Right hand pane containing the detail either the bookmarks or the bookmarks and sub folders. To make some of my deep level folders locatable I sometimes add a dummy bookmark of the same name and tag it. There is no method of natively searching folder titles. It is also possible to open the bookmark manager, and even multiple copies of it as a browser tab or window.

• Use chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul in the location bar.

I have thousands of bookmarks. Not so much because I look them up as bookmarks but it enables them to be found easier in the location bar and synced. History alone is a bit fragile and not easily backed up. I have way too many folders to fit on the bookmarks toolbar without scrolling.

I have no idea what detailed development plans are but I do know that *Sync is being deprecated

• Smart search is staying around for now (Bug 622045)
• Mobiles do not sort bookmarks into folders

I imagine someone is trying to figure out how mobile devices could best handle bookmarks when making any further development plans. Maybe that will be with bookmarks on a web sever. The sync replacement is I understand going to have a proper server backup this time round.

searchplaces is no longer around

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchplaces/

but there are hundreds of bookmarks related addons maybe one of them helps with features you would like start a search from

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/bookmarks/

Thank you again John99 for helping me with the issue of trying to find a way to open up the bookmarks dialogue box. In searching your links I found one app that I believe I used in an earlier version of Firefox, Multirow Bookmark Toolbar. However that appears to have been abandoned by the maker after Firefox 4. I do believe I will checkout Chrome and see if that one gives users a way to set the bookmarks dialogue opened up as a default. I still find it hard to believe that Firefox doesn't simply make that happen. Thanks again, Jim

You're not the only one who wants to expand that dialog. Someone wanted it badly enough to create an add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/add-bookmark-here-2/ (I haven't tried it myself)

Jeff, Well spotted. May not be something I will use but worth remembering.

Cheers, John

Hi John99, the-edmeister mentioned it in another thread within the past week. He knows so many extensions, it's scary.