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dmcritchie
 
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Joined: September 3rd, 2004, 1:14 pm
June 22nd, 2005, 9:18 pm

Post Posted June 22nd, 2005, 9:18 pm

In the Bookmarks file there are 3 letters assigned B, M, S for single letter shortcuts, there are no other letters assigned, since I don't assign any myself.

In my personal bookmarks file which is part of bookmarks, I use folders with short names,
in this entire area of bookmarks there are NO single letter shortcuts within the list of bookmarks.

If I go to the folder (folder: K) in my personal bookmarks where I keep my keyword shortcuts and I have a lot of them: --
I want to type a letter "P" to get me down to the P's -- this is fine if there are none in which case it beeps, or if there are multiples it will select the first, second, etc, and then return to the firs P -- no problem. BUT if there is only one entry that begins with P then it will immediately select that entry which is an undesired result.

Is there a way to disable immediate implementation from bookmarks on a single letter selection,
so that I can make a choice. I'm just looking through the choices, I don't want to be forced into having a choice made for me.

I have no problem with this behavior in menus -- because I can almost always see all of the choices at once (for context menu I reduced size with "Menu Editor" extension). Folders is the only problem.

FWIW most of my keyword shortcuts were included at the time that I created the following page:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/kws.htm

dmcritchie
 
Posts: 25
Joined: September 3rd, 2004, 1:14 pm
June 24th, 2006, 4:56 pm

Post Posted June 24th, 2006, 4:56 pm

workaround: preventing a bookmark from immediate activation if only one bookmark begins the typed single letter.

Since no other suggestions were presented and the problem with activating a bookmark when typing in a single letter if there is only one bookmark that begins with that letter is mainly probem in only one folder I have a workaround. By creating (keyword shortcut) bookmarks of Kzz: and Qzz: so that the letters K and Q are protected from immediate activation of a bookmark.

I have quite a few bookmark keyword shortcuts in the K folder that begin with "P" and the quickest way to see them all (about 8) is to type in Q (one letter past P), which will allow me to see the boomkarks immediately before Q in that folder.

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