If you are reading this article you are probably annoyed that every single time you add a bookmark in Firefox you have to click on the expand button to show the folder list before you can actually locate the folder to put the bookmark in.
There are two solutions that I’ve found to make Firefox expand this dialog by default, one is an extension and the other is a Stylish script, so we’ll go over both solutions.
Using the OpenBook Extension
Download and install the OpenBook extension from Mozilla Add-ons, and after rebooting Firefox you’ll see that the bookmark dialog is now open by default:
There are also a bunch more useful options available in the ridiculously tall Options window:
The most interesting thing here is that you can set Firefox to automatically bookmark into a particular folder by selecting the “Add bookmark to folder below” option.
Using Stylish Tweak Method
If you’re a fan of the Stylish extension you’d probably prefer to just add another user style instead of a separate extension. You won’t get the extra features, but it does save you some extension bloat.
It’s as simple as installing the Add Bookmark Dialog user style… click the button to load into Stylish:
And now you’ll see that the default dialog is changed. You can customize the width / height in the script if you’d like, which is something you can’t do with the OpenBook extension.
Disabling The Stylish Tweak
Because this user style is for the user interface, it won’t show up in the regular Stylish popup, so you’ll have to go into Manage Styles.
You should see the “Add Bookmark Dialog” style in the list, and just remove the check from the left of it.
Don’t forget that you can just drag bookmarks straight off the address bar and onto the bookmarks bar, which is really the simplest option.
Usually the people listed in your Contacts list are regarded as safe by Outlook’s Junk E-mail Filter. Usually being the key word. I ran into an instance today where an interoffice email sent went into the recipients Junk Folder. To correct this I used the following steps.
If you haven’t heard of StumbleUpon you are probably still a very productive person. If you want to make your time-wasting sessions slightly more efficient, you can use the keyboard to stumble instead of clicking the Stumble! button.
Hidden away in the Windows directory is a separate utility that can be used to perform certain user administration functions not provided in the normal interface. Instead of typing “control userpasswords2” into the run box, you can just add it as an icon in your Control Panel.
This is a quick tip to speed up the start menu in Vista. I wrote a previous article about helping the user interface more snappy. This tip concentrates on the start menu but will have a similar effect. So if you employ both strategies the UI will run more smoothly. This tip requires a registry
If you use Outlook to store all of your contacts, you can also use it to quickly find maps and directions for your contacts by using the quick access Map button.
If you find yourself using the Group Policy Editor all the time, you might have wondered why it doesn’t show up in the Control Panel along with all the other tools. After many hours of registry hacking, I’ve come up with a registry tweak to let you do just that.
This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs.
If you’re like most PC users you have thousands of files all over your computer in different directories. When it comes time to do maintenance on your PC and clean up some of those files you probably don’t remember what is what. In fact I know myself that I will download a bunch of utility
Scott pointed me in the direction of an interesting utility for Windows XP that will let you “skin” your icons by replacing the built-in folder icons with custom icons, and even assign a different color for different folders.
We’ve all been at our computer when the Windows Update dialog pops up and tells us to reboot our computer. I’ve become convinced that this dialog has been designed to detect when we are most busy and only prompt us at that moment.
