Bookmark Previews is a Firefox extension, which generates thumbnail previews for all your Firefox bookmarks and lets you browse through your bookmarks in Apple-ish Cover Flow interface.
Basically, this extension adds two views to your bookmark manager: Thumbnail view (Cover Flow style) and Album view. Whenever you add a bookmark or visit any of your bookmarked pages, it snaps a screenshot and preserve it. When you first install this extension, it’ll create thumbnails for your bookmarks in background.
It’s pretty cool, if not very usable.
Foxmarks, Inc. has released several variants of its browser add-on,
Foxmarks, that can now be used to synchronize bookmarks between Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari. The add-ons automatically back up any bookmarks to the company's servers every time a change is made. Users can also view, add, edit and delete bookmarks directly from the Foxmarks website if using a borrowed or public computer, or visit a mobile version of the site to access content from any web-enabled handset.
Foxmarks allows the links to be separated into different groups, determining which bookmarks appear on each computer. Website lists can be shared with friends, with viewing options that include a web page, RSS feed or a widget.
The add-ons are available for free directly from the company. Foxmarks for Firefox supports Firefox 2 or higher and Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Foxmarks beta for Internet Explorer 6 or 7 requires Windows XP or Vista, while Foxmarks Safari requires Safari 3 and Mac OS X 10.5.
Tagging bookmarks is one of those things that I wasn’t sure I’d use when I first played around with it in early versions of Firefox 3, but since the address bar also includes results from your bookmarks it can come in handy. To demonstrate what I mean I created a fresh profile in Firefox 3. Then I visited our homepage, bookmarked and tagged it with “cybernet,” and then went to Yahoo.com and tagged that with “cybernet” as well.
I visited Yahoo a few more times to make sure that I had visited it more than “cybernet,” and then when you search from the address bar you’ll notice that it also searches your tags:
Since I had visited Yahoo.com more than CyberNews.com the Yahoo result showed up as first, and the point of this experiment is to show that you can use the tag system to help manipulate what results show up for certain keywords. If I hadn’t added the “cybernet” tag to the Yahoo.com bookmark it would have never shown up here.
Firefox 3 includes advanced bookmarking capabilities
known as Smart Bookmarks, and they are similar to the automatic playlists that media players, such as iTunes, can generate for you. These Smart Bookmarks can show you things like your most visited sites, recent bookmarks, and even the most visited pages for a specific domain. Here’s a rather comprehensive
set of instructions as to how you can create your own Smart Bookmarks.One of my favorite additions to the Firefox 3 browser (currently in Beta) are
Smart Bookmarks. There’s a good chance that you’ve played with things in other applications that are similar to Smart Bookmarks. For example, iTunes (and many other media players) have what are referred to as Smart Playlists. These are playlists that automatically assemble themselves based on specific criteria, such as the “most played” and “recently added” media. Smart Bookmarks are very similar since they can show you things like your most visited bookmarks or your recently ad ded bookmarks
One of the big complaints that I’ve heard with the new address bar is that it includes results from your bookmarks and browsing history, instead of just the website addresses you’ve typed into it. While I’m glad to see that the address bar includes bookmarks and history, I know that this can add some unwanted “noise” to the results for some people.
- Name: browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped
- Preference Needs to be Created: No
- Preference Type: Boolean
- Default Value: False
- Possible values:
- True - Will only search addresses you’ve entered into the address bar, and will not search your bookmarks or history.
- False - Will search addresses you’ve typed in, bookmarks, and history
Whether it’s news from CNN and the BBC, or posts on your friend’s blog, the Web is updated continually. Firefox’s Live Bookmarks feature automatically keeps track of these updates for you, so you always know when new content has been added to your favorite sites.
With Live Bookmarks, the content comes to you. Instead of constantly checking Web pages for changes and additions, a Live Bookmark delivers updates to you as soon as they are available.
Check it out
Click Latest Headlines in your Firefox Bookmarks toolbar to scan the latest news headlines from BBC News. Find a headline that looks interesting, and select it to jump to the story.
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