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Firefox Bookmark Management
Feb 25, 2008
I've recently started collecting links to photo galleries where friends post pictures of their children. For easy (and frequent) access I like to have the links on my bookmarks toolbar.
I only have three at this point (the Bunn triplets, Kaera Fritz, and Kate Masbruch) but plan to continue adding to it. Unfortunately, they are taking up a fair amount of landscape along my bookmarks toolbar, which I use religiously for frequented sites. Therefore I went searching and found a quick and easy way to open the links all at once which requires only one toolbar link.
Open in tabs the links you wish to include. Click "Bookmarks" -> "Bookmark All Tabs" and specify a name for the group (I named it 'kids'). It will create a folder in your bookmarks. Open "Bookmarks" -> "Organize Bookmarks" and drag the folder that was created to the appropriate position in the "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder." Close the bookmarks manager and then click the folder which is now in your bookmarks toolbar and select "Open All in Tabs". Viola, all three sites open in separate tabs.
I'm not going to pretend this is anything earth shattering but I'm tickled at the find. I'll be applying it to many other sets of links which can be similarly grouped.
Please email me privately if you have a similar site for your kids so I can include it as well!
I just did the same with a bunch of the admin sites at work. There are 2-4 I will use at any given time for one task that to open them all together is nearly too efficient. I don't think I can handle being that productive.
It's such an easy and convenient app I'm kind of embarrassed I didn't know of it sooner. Yet another reason EVERYONE should use Firefox!
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I do something similar when for paying my bills. In one folder, I've grouped my bank's website, google docs, and a couple sites where I can check my monthly bills (gas, cable, etc). Come bill pay time, I click "Open All in Tabs" and I'm ready to go. If the kids site have rss feeds, the obvious alternative is to put those sites into your favorite feed reader so you're notified any time one of them is updated. You've probably considered that already though.