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CJW said:

I've been playing w/both Chrome & Firefox. Both seem pretty good, though I haven't delved deep into the settings & not sure which browser is better at privacy.
1 thing that irks me though, is that neither browser lets me organize my Bookmarks as easily as IE did w/my Favorites. In IE, I could travel to: C:\Users\'Me'\Favorites & be able to review, edit, delete or move any/all Favorites I needed to, 1-by-1.
But in Chrome & Firefox, it's not that easy:
Chrome: C:\Users\'Me'\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Bookmarks - just a file I can open w/a word editor to read.
Firefox: C:\Users\'Me'\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\(A random-named folder) - w/files that are not easy to read.

I agree with you. Easy management of Favourites is the one remaining reason for me to stick with IE as long as I can as well.

I am trying to transition to Firefox.
1 I can save FF bookmarks into my existing Favourites folder. I have my Favourites folder set as a 'Taskbar Toolbar'. I drag the padlock icon from any Firefox webpage down onto the >> in my Taskbar at the edge of my Taskbar toolbar. This creates it in my Favourites folder as a .url file just like IE does. I can then use File explorer as normal to edit them, move them as I see fit. This takes a bit of getting used to as it seems not to have worked but then you look again and it has.


2 I could not change the Firefox Bookmarks bar [=IE Favourites bar] folder icons from their default grey ones but @z3r010 suggested a solution that is pretty good. Right-click on a Firefox Bookmarks bar folder icon, slect Properties, put your cursor before the folder name, press WinKey ; then insert an icon [well, emoji actually] before the name of the folder.
IE
FF

3 After I have done some additions, edits, deletions IE uses the revisions & they appear in the Favourites bar & its subfolders straightaway but I have not found any convenient method for importing IE Favourites bar contents directly into the Firefox Bookmarks bar. That will be a subject for investigation this winter.

Denis
My notes are also in Site Bugs and Suggestions [3] & its later pages but not as concisely.

Vivaldi default with Opera in background. Never used Edge, I dont like it, not user friendly. If I have a problem with a particular site like gmail (copy and paste info from email) - it copies background as well in Vivaldi and Opera and Chrome) then I made a link to gmail via IE and made an icon on desktop alongside my 'normal' gmail icon. I do like my menu bar in browsers but had to make sacrifices to get a friendly fast browser.

CJW said:

I'm now playing w/Vivaldi, seems o.k. so far.
Clean, fast, very customizable, seems light on resources & I can manage my Bookmarks the way I'd like.
I do have questions though: when I use the side panel to go through my History, is there a way to clean it all at once? All I can do is right-click each entry & clean it that way, I see no full cleaning. Also, I've checked Vivaldi's own website, they've eliminated the Ctrl+Enter command. Does anyone here know if there is a work around?

Boomark a page: [Ctrl+D]

Show/ Hide Bookmarks Toolbar via [Ctrl+SHIFT+B]

Clear history: [Ctrl+Shift+DEL]

Manage history: Type into address bar: vivaldi://history


Or enable menu bar then Tools> History

Personally I use this:

Click&Clean - Chrome Web Store

Backup profile: Vivaldi Speed dial

If you want to disable speed Dial: Vivaldi

RE: Ctrl+Enter - in Chrome it adds www to the address bar? No need for that in vivaldi. Just type the address without www and it should work.

In Vivaldi I have on the left hand column a small brush. I click on first item on list then brush, all is wiped

Box has 'pause' 'restart' 'Remove' and 'remove all finished' (brush)

elbmek said:

In Vivaldi I have on the left hand column a small brush. I click on first item on list then brush, all is wiped
Box has 'pause' 'restart' 'Remove' and 'remove all finished' (brush)

That is for downloads - correct? Not for History.

Downloads:

erm, possibly. I decided to give Firefox another look as its been 2-3 years since I threw it out. I wish I hadn't. got it installed and running, well as far as a failed opening home page is running. Even tried manually changing url to a common uk site, still no go, even nasa and space.com would not open, so bye bye FF, for the last time.

to delete history all or part, I opened the history tab then highlighted all - and clicked delete - all gone