I need a bookmark listing program, please!!

**cousinlucky** · 08-13-2007

Each of my browsers enables me to bookmark pages. However my browsers are full of hap-hazzard bookmarks and I need a program that will hold hundreds of url bookmarks the way an address book can hold hundreds of addresses.

Are there any such programs in existence? Thanks!!

**MikeTbob** · 08-14-2007

Hiya cousinlucky!
If you use Firefox, it has a bookmark Manager built-in. Just click on Bookmarks>Organize Bookmarks. I think most browsers have a bookmark organizer. Usually what I do with bookmarks, is import them all into one browser (with the bookmark manager) and then sort them into folders all nice and neat, then When I have them arranged nice and neat, I'll export them back to the other browsers. It saves the hassle of managing multiple bookmarks for multiple browsers.

oz · 08-14-2007

I think most people do it just as suggested by MikeTbob, above.

There aren't many independent apps (if any) designed especially for that purpose. You can, however, find "online" bookmark managers for storing your bookmarks. I'm not so sure I'd trust that method, though. They are likely wanting to know what you are clicking on for various marketing purposes.

**Vergil83** · 08-14-2007

BookmarkBridge will joined bookmarks from various browsers together for you. That may work for what you want....

oz · 08-14-2007

Hi, cousinlucky, you might benefit from a customized start page for your browsers. That's what I use, and having one often keeps you from having to wade through countless bookmarks trying to find what you are after.

It's simply a start page that you put together yourself with all your most used bookmarks on it, then you store that page somewhere in your /home/username directory, and then you make it your home page for each of your browsers. This allows for a very quick start for your browser because your home page is right there on your machine, and all of your most used bookmarks are right there in front of you, on one page.

Of course you'll still have all your other bookmarks available to you by the bookmarks menu.

Just something for you to consider...

oz

**cousinlucky** · 08-14-2007

I saw the over two million listings in Google for this and the first thought that came into my mind is what Ozar mentioned about not being able to trust " online bookmarking ". Thank You for the suggestion Vergil83!

Ozar your suggestion for a customized start page sounds intriguing. How do I go about setting one of those up on my computer and could I put it on my desktop?

oz · 08-14-2007

Originally Posted by cousinlucky

Ozar your suggestion for a customized start page sounds intriguing. How do I go about setting one of those up on my computer and could I put it on my desktop?

You can find a few howtos by doing a Google search for "create custom start page", but some of them are once again websites that want you to create a page on their server. You are better off to place the page onto your local machine, in my opinion.

Here's a very basic start page with a few starter links and a Google search box that you can use if you wish:

Code:

<body>
<br>
<br>

<!-- Search Google -->

<FORM method=GET action=http://www.google.com/custom TARGET=_blank >

<table align="center" cellpadding="5" border="0"><tr><td>
<A HREF=http://www.google.com/ TARGET=_blank>
<IMG SRC=http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_50wht.gif border=0 
ALT=Google align=absmiddle></A>
<INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=31 maxlength=255 value="">
<INPUT type=submit name=btnG VALUE="Search">
</td></tr></TABLE>

</FORM>

<!-- Search Google -->

<hr size="2">

<table>
<tr>
<td width="200" valign="top"><font size="4" color="#0000FF"><strong>[Linux]</strong></font>
<br><br>
<a href="http://www.distrowatch.com/">DistroWatch.com</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/">LinuxForums.org</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.osnews.com/">OSNews.com</a><br><br>
</td>

<td width="200" valign="top"><font size="4" color="#A52A2A"><strong>[Movies]</strong></font>
<br><br>
<a href="http://us.imdb.com/">IMDB.com</a><br><br>
<a href="http://tv.yahoo.com/listings">YahooTV.com</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.zap2it.com/">Zap2it.com</a><br><br>
</td>

<td width="200" valign="top"><font size="4" color="#448344"><strong>[News]</strong></font>
<br><br>
<a href="http://news.google.com/">GoogleNews</a><br><br>
</td>

<td width="200" valign="top"><font size="4" color="#A020F0"><strong>[Sports]</strong></font>
<br><br>
<a href="http://www.fightnews.com/">FightNews</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.ufc.com/">UFC.com</a><br><br>
</td>

<td width="200" valign="top"><font size="4" color="#F0A00F"><strong>[Weather]</strong></font>
<br><br>
<a href="http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=new+york+ny">New York</a><br><br>
</td>

<td width="200" valign="top"><font size="4" color="#8B6914"><strong>[Webmail]</strong></font>
<br><br>
<a href="https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin">Gmail</a><br><br>
<a href="http://www.operamail.com/scripts/common/index.main?signin=1&lang=us">OperaMail</a><br><br>
</td>

</tr>
</table>

</body>

Just copy that code to your /home/username directory and name it whatever you wish (such as mypage.html). Make a backup copy, then edit the file and add/delete things as you see fit. You can make it super fancy, or keep it as simple as you'd like. Replace the current links with links of your choice, or add additional links as you see fit. Change categories if you'd like. It's all up to you. It's all simple html so it shouldn't give you too much trouble.

Once it's edited to your liking, make sure you have a current backup, then set all your web browsers to use the document as your home page. It will start up instantly when you start your browser because the doc resides on your own machine.

Oh, and you can see in an instant what the page looks like by simply saving it to your desktop as something such as mypage.html and then opening it with your web browser.

Hope that makes sense and is of some help to you.

**cousinlucky** · 08-15-2007

Thanks for your help Ozar but I have not learned just how to use my computers terminal as yet; but when I figure that out, I'll attempt to do this.

oz · 08-15-2007

No problem, cousinlucky, but you don't really need the terminal to do this. Just copy and paste the code into any GUI editor, then save the file with the .html extension, then put it to use. Have fun with Linux...

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