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Sort Safari bookmarks, folders first?

I know how to sort bookmarks in Safari (16), but is there a setting or hack to sort all the folders first, like Chrome does it? Right now sorting mixes all the folder with the bookmarks (...
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Change bookmarks from left sidebar to top bar in Safari 7.0.6

A new safari update places the bookmarks on in a quarter screen left navigation. Does anyone know a way to move it back to the top. (I did not see anything in preference and it appeared that under ...
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Is there a way to make Safari open a bookmark in a new tab automatically without a keystroke?

The only way I can see to open the selected bookmark in a new tab is with a keystroke (control-click, or control-shift-click). I'd like to set Safari to automatically open a selected bookmark in a new ...
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Access bookmarks bar with keyboard shortcuts a la Safari

Pretty much the only reason I still choose to use Safari over Google Chrome is the ability to access your bookmarks with keyboard shortcuts. For the first 9 bookmarks in your bookmarks bar, you're ...
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Can Safari 5.1 for Mac OS display favicons for bookmarks in the Bookmarks Bar?

When bookmarking a web site, most contemporary browser will display the site's favicon next to the bookmark, both in the bookmark view and the bookmark toolbar. This is a useful feature. In the ...
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Safari bookmarks sidebar

Is it possible anyhow to have a bookmarks sidebar (like the one in Firefox) in Safari in OSX Lion? The way bookmarks work now in Safari is very clumsy when you have thousands of bookmarks. If not ...
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Migrate bookmarks from Firefox to Safari

I have a Time Machine backup from a previous Snow Leopard installation where my Firefox bookmarks reside somewhere. I want to use them in Safari in my new Lion Installation. The problem is that I ...
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A Safari Bookmark Icon That Cannot Be Deleted

The icon image (.ico file) for a particular Safari 5 bookmark, for "accuweather.com", keeps appearing no matter what purging of Safari I try to do. I've tried everything, repeatedly. "Reset Safari..."...
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Sync Chrome Bookmarks to Safari (or iPhone) w/o XMarks

I'm trying to find a way to sync bookmarks (one way from Chrome to Safari) ultimately so I can sync them to the iPhone but continue to use Chrome as my fulltime desktop browser. Alternatively, I ...
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Safari browser bookmarks vanish

I have a big problem with Bookmarks in Safari on Mac OS X 10.5. The following problem occurs: When I try to save for example www.greatsite.com as a Bookmark through Bookmarks/Add Bookmark... then the ...
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And simple way to make Firefox and Safari to show favicon next to the bookmark title on the Bookmark bar?

I think it is a design decision that Firefox and Safari both don't show the favicon (the little icon for a website) next to the bookmark's title on the Bookmark bar. (for example, if there is a "...
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How do you sort bookmarks in Safari alphabetically?

I have a lot of bookmarks in Safari and I would like to sort them alphabetically. It's a pain to do it manually, and I don't seem to find a "Sort alphabetically" menu option. Is this at all possible?
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intuitive way to structure favorites folder

For many years I didnt use the "favorites" feature of my web browsers because when I switched machines (I use a few between work and home) I could not access MY favorites. This was enough to ...
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Share bookmark for both Safari and Firefox?

I have a Mac with both Safari and Firefox as my primary browsers. I like to use both. Is there any way to share my Firefox bookmarks with my Safari? I guess one way is to change my browser ...
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