deactivate or hide certain bookmarks when typing in the URL

[speedweed]

the only thing i've been missing was a way to deactivate or hide certain bookmarks from popping up in the search results (or recents) when typing in the URL row. i probably have more than 100 bookmarks and many of them start the same, due to me opening certain folders all at once, but never one by one. this would also make me rest more easily whenever i give my phone to someone else, so they dont immediately see all my links i've saved concerning hairloss. ie. when i or someone else starts typing "h" for hotmail, they shouldnt be first recommended a dozen pages for hairloss if i ticked an option for hiding those bookmarks specifically from search results and from recently added. instead, FF should recommend my other bookmarks with h like hotmail, honey, hackerforums, halflife fanpages and whatever else i actually have. and i have a large number of such skippable results, like dozens if not hundreds of saved amazon and other products that i'll order some other day.

the only thing i've been missing was a way to deactivate or hide certain bookmarks from popping up in the search results (or recents) when typing in the URL row. i probably have more than 100 bookmarks and many of them start the same, due to me opening certain folders all at once, but never one by one. this would also make me rest more easily whenever i give my phone to someone else, so they dont immediately see all my links i've saved concerning hairloss. ie. when i or someone else starts typing "h" for hotmail, they shouldnt be first recommended a dozen pages for hairloss if i ticked an option for hiding those bookmarks specifically from search results and from recently added. instead, FF should recommend my other bookmarks with h like hotmail, honey, hackerforums, halflife fanpages and whatever else i actually have. and i have a large number of such skippable results, like dozens if not hundreds of saved amazon and other products that i'll order some other day.

[Jon]

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[joeytwiddle]

What solutions can you imagine for this? Some suggestions:

1. If a folder is named Private, then bookmarks beneath it should not appear in searches.

Advantage: Easy for other bookmark managers to detect such folders and treat them similarly. (E.g. sites which publish your bookmarks)

Disadvantage: Localised to English only.

2. Allow the user to right click or edit bookmark folders, and mark them as private that way. I.e. toggle a boolean flag.

Disadvantages: Harder to transfer to other systems. And may need an icon to indicate which things have been marked as private.

3. Allow the user to right-click individual bookmarks and do the same.

[speedweed]

@joeytwiddlei'm obviously not a browser programming expert and i most certainly do not understand how and which aspects of browsers become universal and which stay with their original introducers, but i can share my purely subjective opinions, if anyone's interested:

- most importantly, if ANYTHING is just good enough (and cheap/free), it will almost always become the standard sooner or later. so much of your concern doesnt really worry me, so long as it's implemented in a user-friendly way.

- i would assume that in the current day environment the right click version would be the most easily recognised way by average users to set things to private of what you proposed, so long as entire folders can be edited with a few clicks and non-cryptic naming is used

- setting bookmarks to private one by one is borderline useless in my opinion. at that point i'd rather mass download the links to my computer, put them in folders and open all of them at once whenever i need them from there, even without mozilla needing to implement anything new. downside is, i wouldnt have that folder available everywhere as easily as i would with firefox sync. i'd additionally have to open some cloud based storage in, say, internet cafés or at new jobs, libraries, my relatives and what not. that's why i dont currently do it, but i may just if my bookmarks situation gets fully out of control

- ps: is there an easy way to get a count of all my bookmarks? (including from the toolbar, sidebar, unsorted and in folder)