Library questions

[semigeek]

(1) Can the age cutoff for the Last Visit date (and count) on sites in the Library be adjusted? These seem to blank/zero out somewhere around two months which is too soon for my taste.

(2) On Ctrl-Alt-B, the Library opens by default to Other Bookmarks. Can this be changed to a different folder?

[therube]

I see 'Most Recent Visit' rather than Last Visit?
In my case, I've got some Most Recent Visits going back to 2015.

[semigeek]

(1) OK, thanks, it may not be a cutoff issue. I think two things are happening that I didn't expect:
* Most Recent Visit data did not carry over from my previous FF installation to this new computer; and
* MRV is zeroed out even on bookmarks when a site is deleted from History, as I periodically do -- it's not kept independently in bookmark data, which also explains why it didn't carry over.

(2) Still curious about the default folder...

[morat]

2.

There isn't an easy peasy way to change the default folder.

You would have to change the command for the keyboard shortcut.

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PlacesCommandHook.showPlacesOrganizer('UnfiledBookmarks');

Similar thread
http://custombuttons.sourceforge.net/fo ... ?f=2&t=526

[semigeek]

Thanks. Does Custom Buttons still work? Of course I don't want an actual button. Is there no Firefox addon allowing what keyconfig used to do (or tbkeys still does in Thunderbird) anymore?

[morat]

Those addons are obsolete. I was thinking of a userChrome.js hack.

The following code snippet works in the browser console.

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document.getElementById("Browser:ShowAllBookmarks").
  setAttribute("oncommand", "PlacesCommandHook.showPlacesOrganizer('BookmarksToolbar');");

Instructions:

* open about:config page
* set devtools.chrome.enabled preference to true
* open browser console i.e. tools > web developer > browser console
* copy and paste code into browser console command line
* press enter to run
* focus browser window
* press ctrl+shift+o to open library to bookmarks toolbar

[xanthon]

Thanks, morat. If, like me, someone has trouble working out where to enter that code, there is an input area at the bottom of the browser console.

[semigeek]

Of course you'd still have to set up userChrome.js (which I don't already have) to actually make that work, and this is too small a thing for me to bother doing that. But it's good to know, in case I do find another hack I really need one day.

I see they've changed the Ctrl-Shift-B shortcut itself now, how stupid! And there's a javascript hack to restore it, but I shouldn't need that because I could do it easily enough with AutoHotKey. (In fact I could probably set up a really crude hotkey for this as well, opening the Library then moving the cursor.) In any case, curiosity satisfied, thanks.

[xanthon]

Of course you'd still have to set up userChrome.js (which I don't already have) to actually make that work, ....

You don't need userChrome.js to make the change in the Browser Console (if that's what you are referring to).

EDIT: the change in the Browser Console does NOT survive quitting and/or rebooting (not sure which as I have done both).

[dickvl]

Use an autoconfig.cfg file instead.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cu ... autoconfig

https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/commen ... _configjs/