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Bookmarks serve several important purposes in web browsing. Above all else, they allow you to quickly and easily jump to your favorite pages with only a click or two of the mouse. They also enable you to organize information that interests you, and make it simple to keep track of long, complicated URLs. In Galeon, additions have been made to the typical features of bookmarks to make them even more customizable and powerful. This chapter discusses those features and how to use them.
The Bookmarks Editor, unsurprisingly, allows you to edit your bookmarks. Instructions on how to load it are given in the section called Bookmarks Menu in the chapter called The Browser Window.
In the upper portion of the Bookmarks Editor window, there is a tree-based listing of all of your folders, bookmarks, and separators. For easy viewing, all of the branches of the tree can be quickly expanded or collapsed by clicking the Expand all or Collapse all buttons in the lower right corner of the window. Objects can be repositioned by dragging them to new locations in the tree, and you can also move them up and down in the listing by selecting one and clicking the Up and Down buttons in the lower left corner of the window. New items (bookmarks), separators, and categories (folders) can be created by clicking the appropriate buttons at the bottom of the screen. If the highlighted object is a folder, the new object will be created inside of it; otherwise, the new object will be appended after the highlighted object.
After you select an object by clicking on it, its attributes will appear in the area in the middle of the window. The available options will vary depending on whether a bookmark or folder is selected.
When an bookmark is selected, you are able to edit its name, give it a nickname (described in the section called Bookmark "Nicks"), edit the URL, add notes that are only visible in the Bookmarks Editor window, and select an image to replace the bookmark's name in the toolbar and menus (described in the section called Bookmarks With Images). By modifying the URL field as described in the section called Smart Bookmarks, it is possible to create a bookmark that will use user-supplied arguments to form a URL, greatly simplifying the use of search engines.
When a folder is selected, you are able to edit its name, add notes, and associate an image with it. In addition to this, the Create toolbar? checkbox allows you to make the contents of the folder appear within a toolbar, as described in the section called Bookmarks Toolbars.
Clicking the OK button closes the window and applies any changes that were made.
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