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I would like to create some hotkeys for Firefox bookmarks. Would appreciate samples of how to do this. Thanks!

-- jeff

To create a bookmark it is by default ctrl-d, if you want to open favourite sites using shortcuts it can be done with a simpleif firefox is not your default browser include the full path to firefox.exe before the url.

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Thanks for the reply. What I really want to do is run a bookmarklet (a chunk of javascript code stored as a URL) in the current page I'm viewing. As one example, I have a bookmarklet that removes background colors and makes the page easier to read (http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/the-zap-colors-bookmarklet).

How do i get it to work? I've bookmarked it, & pasted code into bookmarks "Properties" field
But when i drag it into address box & press "go" it does nothing

Edit: It works

I have a related question but I didn't want to start a new topic for this.

I am new to FireFox and have a great many bookmarks. My problem is that when I uninstall FireFox and then want to reinstall it, I lose all my bookmarks. I cannot find the file or other location where Firefox stores its bookmarks.

My problem is that I would like to be able to restore all my bookmarks quickly - ideally by copying the contents of a file.

Can anyone tell me how Firefox stores its bookmarks and what is the easiest way for me to copy a large number of bookmarks to my current version of Firefox?

Thanks very much.

Open FireFox and try the following menus:
>> Bookmarks >> Organize >> Export/Import/Backup

(I'm guessing since mine is not in English)

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Simply send the javascript to the address barIf that works you can try to speed it up using other methods

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Unfortunately the javascript is too complicated; simply inserting it as a string won't work because it has special characters that are interpreted by ahk.

Also, on the test that I did, when the string is entered into the address bar, you can see the individual characters being added; I'd guess that it takes about one second for 25 characters. The bookmarklet is almost 5000 characters, so could take several minutes (and it also might well exceed the limit on the number of characters allows in the address bar).

Thanks...

-- jeff

@JDN Check out Xmarks (http://www.xmarks.com). Works well for me.

Jeff, you are right, the javascript code is too complicated to paste. I have also tried to run a simpler script like this:

this did not work either and actually tries to open IE rather that running it in Firefox.
Although I haven't tried it, I suggest for JD to look into Imacro, a FF add-on.

What are you doing? You run your browser THEN you send the javascript to the address/location bar.

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Look for a file in your application data \ firefox \ profiles directory, it is a sqlite database file, prior to v3 it was a plain html file. Simply copy that file and you're done.

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Did you ever hear of paste? It is the only way to go with firefox, if you use IE you might have more options look at the various IE posts.

Other trick: assign keyword to the bookmarklet so you can to the address bar, see
http://lifehacker.com/196779/hack-attac ... ookmarking

It works

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Using a keyword works much works better, thanks for the suggestion.

The only disadvantage of this approach (using the address bar) is that this mucks up the url. Any ideas on how to do this without touching the address bar?

Thanks again...

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