Yes, in fact, I don't even see why the folder was created in the first place, because the tail end of the Bookmarks Menu was really the same. Actually the reason was that with "tags" nobody would need folders, A tag of Firefox would be meaningless in my bookmarks and would make for twice as many bookmark records.

For sorting bookmarks, I recommend that you use bookmark separators especially at the end of very large folders so new material doesn't get mixed in with the main body of a folder until you you've reviewed, modified it, accept it and perhaps categorize it by moving it into a sub-folder somewhere..

Use the "SortPlaces" extension to sort your bookmarks it takes about the same time for it to sort all of your bookmarks as Firefox takes to sort a small folder of bookmarks. The link to that extension and other helpful information can be found in ...

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_and_rearranging_bookmarks_-_Firefox

and since I have and use that extension there may be additional information on that extension on my own web page. (link corrected 2011-08-10)

• http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox.htm#sortplaces

and I have a suggestion there to not sort automatically, I don't know if that is still the default, but it is not a good thing to do. Sort after you've reviewed.

I also sort my my bookmarks toolbar, and use bookmark separators to group things so the most important items are somewhere near the middle so I always see them even when using a half screen-width window.

Missed the part about importing from IE and creating subfolders in unsorted bookmarks. Don't create subfolders in unsorted bookmarks they should be in the Bookmarks Menu, in Bookmarks Toolbar, or left left in the imported folder called "Internet Explorer" and the last would be my preference.

To import your IE bookmarks suggest you use "Alt" first if you don't see menu bar, then File > Import > from Internet Explorer. The other way would be to go through the "Import and Backup" of the Bookmarks Library List (Ctrl+Shift+B) which could be a disaster if it merges folders together.

Thank you. I just started Firefox yesterday, so I am quite new to it. I had already found the plugin, and down loaded it. I have added several folders, and the contents of the folders (from IE: I just click on the 'favorite' in the 'From Internet Explorer' folder, then add it to Firefox (creating the folder if necessary). I did NOT use any separators, and I test several now in the 'unsorted Bookmarks' folder of Firefox. They all seemed to work excellently. I had seen that caveat about putting separators; I did not; maybe it will come back to haunt me. Thanks again.

Would you mark the question as solved, which only the owner can do, and I hope you read the page there is a lot more there than just the one extension and bookmark separators. Though they were the first things I added. There are several bookmark extensions and some styles as well to help with bookmarks along with techniques for working with bookmarks.

I see one person marked the answer as not helpful. Without an explanation of why it is not helpful, you won't get help and you may also be depriving others of help as well if it attracts attention for an answer that is not there. At the bottom of MozillaZine articles besides the obvious "See also" links, there is at the very bottom category links and bookmarks as a category would link to a lot of different pages and settings dealing with bookmarks. But since the topic is sorting bookmarks, I think everything I know about the topic is in the article. If something is missing let us know.