i do not want some of my bookmarks visible in firefox...for various reasons. how do i go about hiding them? thanks.-max
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Hiding bookmarks in firefox
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Hiding them? Just place them in folders with boring names that nobody would want to click on, like Microsoft OS Update.
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doesnt work...i dunno why, but even if i hide stuff in an endless list of folders with names that sound boring, eventually someone finds them. i really need to make them invisible.
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Well, there is no way of making them invisible, but you could make a link to the web pages as a separate file. Just right-click on your desktop, select New> Shortcut. A little dialog box will appear, fill in the web address that you want, click Next, think of a boring file name and then click Finish. You will now have a small file on your desktop that will link straight to the website of your choice. You can place this file anywhere on your computer's hard drive.
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HERE is an example of what I mean.
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worked wonders. kudos bob.
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No problem. A bit of creative thinking goes a long way.
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If there are a lot of them, you could write a webpage to contain them as links and either keep it as a file with a boring filename or store it on a free server and memorise the URL.
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Good idea ineleg. More or less, you could easily just password protect a zip file hidden in your system files. And contain the links inside there.
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You could also copy the folder containing Firefox to a flash drive and run it from there and do what you please with it....just make sure not to borrow it to anyone
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Okay here goes:Solution #1You can download portable firefox from www.portableapps.comThis firefox makes all bookmarks stay in the folder where the program is intalled. You can install it in a flash disk and make sure it never stays out of sight.Solution #2You can save all your bookmarks to a HTML page, and then delete all bookmarks from firefox. Then a page named "bookmarks.html" will be created. As long as you hide this page, your bookmarks will be safe. You can zip it to a password protected .zip or .rar file and extract it every time you want to run firefox.
