Re: Which browsers handle "Add to Favorites" sensibly?

On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:26:48 -0500, Bob wrote:

> As far as I know, all versions of IE, for some inexplicable reason,
> open -every- -single- -subfolder- of the favorites folder every time
> you add a link to favorites. It's hard to imagine why, since novices
> with 10 entries probably won't bother using subfolders. Veteran users,
> or researchers who have hundreds or thousands of links that were
> nicely organized under IE6 are now, well, screwed.
>
> So of course I'm looking for a browser that will function in place of
> IE7/8, and will do the following (in order of priority):
>
> 1: Read current format IE favorites.
> 2: NOT open every subfolder. <g>
> 3: Allow changing the location of the favorites folder.
>
> I guess #3 is not imperative, but it's sort of the same deal: Any
> novice user is going to leave it as default, so they don't need
> protection against mental screwups in moving the folder.
>
> Is there a fix in any new versions of IE? What else can even read IE
> favorites...Firefox? Chrome?

Only Internet Explorer has "Favorites". Every other browser I use has,
"Bookmarks". All browsers can import either from any other browser. AFAIK,
none can read any other browser's "Bookmarks/Favorites" natively.

When adding to bookmarks, Opera 10.10 works the same as Internet Explorer 8.
I don't seem to have a sufficiently extensive list of bookmarks in Firefox
to see how it handles your situation.

As Rin Ogata says, "Like the stage, the world changes".

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Norman
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