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Published: Sep 28, 2006. Updated: Jan 6, 2010.
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Sorting Bookmarks in Firefox 3

Firesort will not work with Firefox 3 due to the way bookmarks are now stored in an SQLite database file. This is not a problem because bookmark sorting is a built in feature of Firefox 3. To sort your bookmarks in Firefox 3, perform the following steps:

  1. Click the Bookmarks menu and click Organize Bookmarks...
  2. Double-click All Bookmarks to show/expand all your bookmark folders
  3. Right-click on any of your folders and choose Sort By Name

Repeat the steps above for every folder that you would like to sort by name.

See http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_bookmarks_alphabetically for more info about bookmark sorting.

Sorting Bookmarks in Firefox 1 & 2

Choose Your Download

Firesort requires Java version 1.4 or newer.

Use Firesort

  • Unzip the download and double-click Firesort.exe (Windows only) or double-click firesort.jar to start the program
  • Quit Firefox (otherwise the sort will not take effect)
  • In Firesort click File then Open a bookmarks.html file...
  • In the Sort a bookmarks.html file window that pops up, locate your Firefox profile folder
  • Once you have located your profile folder, click the bookmarks.html file and then click Sort
  • Start Firefox and your bookmarks should now be in alphabetical order

Command Line Options

  • Firesort can be launched from the command line by typing: java -jar firesort.jar
  • Firesort can sort a bookmarks.html file from the command line by typing: java -cp firesort.jar com.onpubco.firesort.LibFiresort bookmarks.html
  • Firesort can sort a bookmarks.html file from standard input by typing: java -cp firesort.jar com.onpubco.firesort.LibFiresort < bookmarks.html

Developers

If you are interested in participating in the development of Firesort, visit our Firesort Google Code Page. There you will find the latest Firesort source code and also a page where you can report bugs.

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