Does Firefox have collections like Edge?

How do I organize Firefox extensions?

Do we organize extensions by the number of users with which they co-operate?

Or do we have categories of popular, unpopular, and 'everything else'? A new extension does not need to have co-operation with another extension - does that mean it should not be categorized in our extension database? What should we do with an extension where two different files must both be installed to run? An example: When a user gets Firefox to download your plug-in, they then need to visit a download-this-otherwise-it'll-happen page. In this situation there is no reason for extensions.org to have any direct cooperation between the files. They can simply both be downloaded, installed, and you get what you're expecting. So, what to do about other cases?

If these are different situations (ie different files are needed to make the extension work), then I think that only the most widely used extensions should be kept in the default set (the one set up for a particular release). There could still be a "popular extensions" category of the database, just for good-not-great, or good-actually, or whatever you want to call it.

In the event that different files might each provide an advantage in slightly different situations, maybe "standard" should just refer to the original file? Then "extensions-all" should be the only category that works. A list of standard categories would provide more granularity for less money. In the meantime.

The main purpose of this site is providing users with the ability to search a repository for extensions. A user might start out using extensions.mozilla.org (as usual), but might later discover a new feature (perhaps it's a browser feature which they like, or a new extension, or so on) that can make the browsing experience better in one way or another. It would then make sense for them to be able to use their extension to help in searching, and thereby find what they're looking for in the first place. (Yes, this sounds pretty weird, but I've seen it happen, and it really does save some time). At some point in the future, the user may find that the new feature isn't even used, and therefore it won't work at all anymore.

Does Firefox have collections like Edge?

I have tried to use the Edge browser on Windows 10 and it has a Collections in it that has images, videos and other content from various websites that I visit.

It's a really handy feature that I would like to use in Firefox as well. Does Firefox have anything similar?

There is a way to add bookmarks to the History, but it isn't very intuitive. You can enable the History button in the top right corner of the address bar, or you can add bookmarks directly to the history list by typing about:bookmarks in the address bar.

In either case, you can drag and drop items to the history list to add them. You can also add more information to the bookmarks by right-clicking on them.

How do I add addons to my Firefox collection?

I do have a very good collection of add-ons for Firefox and am considering switching to IceWeasel with its preinstalled add-ons.

But how do I add a new addon, without spending hours installing it and checking if it works? I've made an extension that lets you save and retrieve settings for addons. It's called Addons Configurator, and is available at Github: Addons Configurator.xpi folder you point it at. It works well in Firefox 26 & up, Chrome 32 and down, Safari 6.1 & down, IE 11 and Edge 12, Pale Moon 17.5.0 or earlier (no longer supported) and many more; even Internet Explorer 10
See how to save and load settings by using the right-click menu. Also if you haven't seen it yet (and it's worth checking out, no matter what browser you are using), check out the Wikipedia entry for my Firefox toolbox. Add-ons Configurator is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.

What is the difference between collections and bookmarks in Firefox?

There are basically two ways of handling bookmarks in Firefox: the so called Collections, based on the Bookmark Manager extension.

The normal way, based on the "bookmark-manager" preferences There is also a (not so well known) way to set and retrieve Firefox bookmarks directly using the file format "bookmarks.html".

The purpose of this post is to show what happens when we try to get bookmarks from collections and from the default preference location. Collections and bookmark-manager based bookmarks. I want to stress that I am not interested in how much or how little people use bookmarks, but I am more interested in how it is implemented. So lets have a look at the collections option. It basically means that you use an "extension" for managing bookmarks. The extension can be found here:

As it turns out there is a bug in the extension, so that it does not properly understand how to create a new collection. This makes Thunderbird crash, but only when you actually use it to add a collection to Firefox.

A work-around for this is to use the following settings to tell Firefox how to deal with collections. Basically you are telling it that if there is a directory Bookmarks the folder will be the collection, otherwise the collection is created elsewhere (and hence it can be managed with the "extension"): Bookmarks.dir - where to put the collection Bookmarks.subfolders - subfolders of collection Bookmarks.subfolders - another level of subfolders of collection You have to do this because the "Bookmarks" extension really takes care of the whole folder, and it expects the parent folder of a collection (which is actually the collections directory). It doesn't really make any sense to me that a "bookmark-manager" extension expects a different setting to the one for managing bookmarks directly. It is like there was no plan behind it. So what is the point of all this?