Unless you are organized and disciplined, over time bookmarks can accumulate to the point where there are so many you don’t know what you have. If this sounds familiar, then you should check out the Firefox add-on Bookmark Duplicate Detector.

Detects Duplicate Bookmarks when bookmarks are added and specify where is the previous URL. You can also search and delete duplicates URL already in your Bookmarks.

This is a simple add-on that can effectively help you get your bookmarks back under control.

A while ago, I wrote about how to backup your Firefox bookmarks and that occassionally doing so was prudent in the event of a disaster. Of course, the problem with that method is that it is a manual process you have to remember to do. The best method is to have your bookmarks backed up automatically and the appropriately named add-on, Bookmark Backup, does just that.

Bookmark Backup is a simple extension that helps to keep your bookmarks (and optionally other Firefox settings) safe. Each time Firefox is closed, a copy of your bookmarks file will be made to a backup location. If Firefox’s bookmarks become corrupted or lost, find the most recent uncorrupted backup and copy it into your profile folder.

Simple enough. You can configure the location of where you want your backups stored and you can also backup just about anything else in your browser including passwords and cookies.

Since a backup is performed everytime your browser closes, this is a true ’set it and forget’ method for making sure your bookmarks are safe.

Most of us have a few sites we like to visit on a daily basis first thing in the morning (i.e. PCMech, your favorite comics, etc.). Rather than having to go through the ‘hassle’ of manually opening each page, check out the Firefox extension Morning Coffee.

From the extension’s description:

This extension lets you organize websites by day and open them up simultaneously as part of your daily routine. This is really handy if you read sites that update on a regular schedule (like webcomics, weekly columns, etc.).

This is a pretty interesting idea as the scheduling functionality is much better than creating a folder with the sites you visit and opening all the tabs at once or having multiple home pages which can slow down initial load time.

You can read the full description on the author’s page as well as an FAQ which gives some insight into the future direction of this extension.

One thing you might not consider when making your backups are your Internet bookmarks. Odds are you probably have quite a bit of time invested in locating and organizing these backups, so having a backup is a good idea.

To accomplish this task in the most popular browsers, here is a handy reference. The process is pretty easy and is something which you should run occasionally. Since you probably do not add new bookmarks daily (maybe you do though), just a simple backup of your bookmarks and then copying the resulting file to a flash drive or emailing it to yourself is prudent.

Foxmarks is a freely available add-on for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. Normally what you would do to send/retrieve your bookmarks is use the Foxmarks servers to store this information, however if you host your own web site (or just use free FTP space provided by your ISP) you can store your own bookmarks privately via FTP. See video below for details.

Bookmark management in all web browsers is terrible. All of them. You would think that something as simple as searching for a bookmark would be simple and easy to do but it usually isn’t.

In Firefox 3 you can at least search your bookmarks easily if you know how to do it. Fortunately this is quite easy. All you have to do is use your address bar. Just type in a word or two and your bookmarks are auto-searched along with browser history.

Most of the time your bookmarks are listed first, and that’s good. You will know if a search result is a bookmark because there will be a gold star next to the listing.

Below is a screenshot of what this looks like.

While this may not be perfect (sometimes the search is a bit too "picky"), at least you have some ability to search bookmarks.

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Firefox 3 was recently released by Mozilla and they broke a world record in doing so for the most downloads in a 24 hour period. There is a reason the browser is so popular: it is flexible and well thought out.

Out of the many new features available with the new version, one of them is the way it handles bookmarks. So, what’s new and what are my tips for using it?

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