The Basics of Places and Smart Bookmarks | Firefox Facts

firefoxfacts — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 08:50:43 -0500

No doubt that Firefox 3 and the new places query syntax is going to lead into a lot of new and creative ways of managing the bookmarks saved on your machine. For those unsure what these are they would be your "Recently Bookmarked" or "Recent Tags" selections you see in your bookmarks menu now with Mozilla’s newest browser.

Keeping Track Of Posts: Using Smart Folders With Places | Infinite Injury

gialloporpora — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:14:26 -0500

With Firefox 3’s places support I’ve finally found a great solution. Say I want a folder that lists the 15 most recent pages I bookmarked with the tag ‘comments’. First I need to have bookmarked at least one page with that tag at which point I find the id of the folder “comments” under the tag folder. I did this by using the sqlite manager plugin for firefox and opening the places.sqlite database in my profile folder. (I think it may also be possible to do this by opening bookmarks.postplaces.html). You’ll know that you’ve found the right entry if it has the same name as the tag you’re interested in and has a parent of 4 (it’s in the tags folder). Once you’ve found the id of the tag folder you are interested in create a new bookmark and enter the following for it’s location: