Create a Custom Bookmarks Page in Firefox
Looking for a fun and creative way to display and access your favorite bookmarks in webpage format? Now you can do both with MyBookmarks for Firefox.
Options
Once you have installed the extension and restarted your browser, the first thing to do is to go to the options to see if there are any adjustments or modifications that you would like to make.
Here you can specify the number of columns, title length for bookmark names, choose options for opening links, favicon display, inclusion of Live Bookmarks if desired, activation of layout modification, and the folder groups to be included.
If you love the idea of customizing how your MyBookmarks page looks, you will be able to make all sorts of tweaks in the Style Sheet for the extension. Notice that there is a “Reset Button” if something gets messed up or you decide that you like the default look best (terrific!).
Here you can personally select the folders (and subfolders) that you want to have included or excluded in your MyBookmarks page (definitely nice!).
Note: Folders shown are from our browser’s bookmark library.
What Does the MyBookmarks Page Look Like?
This is what our MyBookmarks page looked like once we accessed it (very very nice!). The wonderful thing about this extension is that you can set the MyBookmarks page as your browser homepage (or as one of multiple homepages).
Note: To add MyBookmarks as a homepage, use “about:mybookmarks” as the address.
You can also access your MyBookmarks page through the Bookmarks Menu…
Conclusion
MyBookmarks provides a fun and creative way to display and access your bookmarks. This is definitely a recommended add-on for anyone who wants to express their personal style and enjoy bookmark access goodness.
Links
Daily Email Updates
You can get our how-to articles in your inbox each day for free. Just enter your name and email below:
as cool as this looks, I can’t get it to work. I just get a blank blue screen (on my about:bookmarks page) instead of that layout. Heeelp
Something similar that I use is start.io
It let’s you add links to your favorite sites and you can access the site from any browser.
take mine for example start.io/alfredo
Nice.
I’ve tried this extension before but either, I missed the customization, or it wasn’t in it yet, so i never used it much. I’m working on customizing it now, I think I’ll use this a lot. Had been using FastDial, however it would load slow (because of images for links) and I couldn’t fit enough bookmarks on it for my uses.
Thanks for the walkthrough
Tried to install using FF 3.5.3 and left the room after clicking restart; returned 15 minutes later and FF had not restarted. (also noting: FF was still running in my task manager). I do have a lot of bookmarks, is this the reason it is taking so long or are there other issues? I have canceled the install, but any help would be appreciated!
Thanks
@216 – I noticed that someone else was having the same problem at the add-on homepage at Mozilla. I am hoping that ma2ten will post a response concerning the blue screen result…I will try to keep an eye on it. ^__^
@BonesXXX – Just out of curiosity, how much memory was Firefox using when you found it running in the Task Manager? It sounds like your Firefox install was having a “memory usage temper tantrum”…my Firefox install has recently been acting a little odd itself occasionally and will not totally shut down when I close it…
I would suggest trying the install again…it should display all of your bookmarks very very quickly. ^__^
Please give me exact steps to where I can customize. THis is a great tool, shows up with all my bookmarks, but am having trouble figuring out the steps to customize it.