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How to quickly and easily add a live bookmark/RSS feeds

How to quickly and easily add a live bookmark/RSS feed to Internet Explorer 7 or 8

Both Internet Explorer 7 and 8 fully support live bookmarks/RSS feeds. IE7 and IE8 also support Microsoft's 'Common Feed List', but more on that later. When you visit a site with an RSS feed in Internet Explorer 7/8, the RSS feed icon becomes active. This icon is circled red in the picture below:-





Click on the icon shown above and Internet Explorer will take you to a screen like the one below:-



















Notice in the above picture, Internet Explorer says this feed "can be viewed in Internet Explorer and other programs". Here is the really cool part, any feed you add in Internet Explorer will be available in any other program that supports Microsoft's 'Common Feed List'.

Currently this includes Microsoft Outlook and the RSS reader in the Vista sidebar. Eventually most RSS aware Windows programs will support Common Feed List.
Getting back to the tutorial, to add this RSS feed to Internet Explorer and the Common Feed List, click on "Subscribe to this feed" as circled in the picture above.

The following window will then appear:-

















Click on "Subscribe" as circled in the picture above to confirm your subscription. The window will close and you will be taken to the page below:-


































You can now click on "View my feeds" (as shown above) to see a list of all the feeds you are subscribed to. You can access your feeds at any time by clicking on the favorites center (the small star icon in the top left hand corner
of the IE window, or press the keys ALT and C together) and then choosing "Feeds".

The picture below shows the favorites center open on the feeds tab.































Want to learn how to do it for Firefox ? Here is the link !

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Firefox Bookmarks management

Bookmarks management in Firefox 3 onwards 
OR 
How to copy Bookmarks in Firefox 3 onwards

bookmarks.html stores bookmarks in Firefox 2 and below and in other Mozilla browsers. Starting in Firefox 3, places.sqlite is used instead of bookmarks.html for storing bookmarks.

The bookmarks.html is a file in the profile folder. Mozilla applications store a user's personal information in a unique profile. The first time you start any Mozilla application, it will automatically create a default profile; additional profiles can be created using the Profile Manager. The settings which form a profile are stored in files within a special folder on your computer — this is the profile folder. The installation directory also includes a "profile" folder but this folder contains program defaults, not your user profile data.

Operating system: Windows NT (NT4.x/2000/XP/Vista/7)
Profile folder location(s):  "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\"

 

Way to find the application data folder (profile folder):

Press [Windows Key]+ Run
→ Type in %APPDATA%
→ click OK


Editing bookmarks.html

Although the Bookmarks Manager is the primary interface for managing bookmarks, bookmarks.html can be edited directly. The file uses a simple HTML structure that includes definition lists, anchors, and headers. A typical bookmarks.html bookmark contains the URL, name, and other meta data:

ADD_DATE="1079992089" LAST_VISIT="1132078168" LAST_CHARSET=
"ISO-8859-1" ID="rdf:#$kLc2Z">Cascading Style Sheets, level
2 revision 1

The application should be closed before changes are made, else the changes will be overwritten.

 
Moving bookmarks.html

This file can be moved to a different profile without any extra effort.

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FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.

 




Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as: 

directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more!






Firefox recommends this add-on with: Firefox 3.5 - 3.6