Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock

If you’re looking to make a bookmark in your Dock that will bring up all of your bookmarks, there is a way to do it with Safari.

First, you may not know it, but you can enter bookmarks:// in the Safari address bar and it will bring up all of your Bookmarks, just as if you pressed the Bookmarks button in the Bookmarks Bar.

If you try to drag this down into your Dock, though, Launches Services doesn’t quite know what to do with it, so it won’t actually launch your Bookmarks.

Here’s how to fix that.

1) Create a new Safari bookmark for the URL bookmarks://
2) Drag it to your Dock
3) Download and install the freeware application MisFox.
4) In this program click on the Protocol Helper tab.
5) Now press the New button.
6) Enter the protocol bookmarks, and for the Helper choose: /Applications/Safari.app

Now the Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock will correctly open your Safari bookmarks page when you open it.


 
 
Submitted on September 4, 2008 at 2:22 pm - Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock was written by Michael - There have been 2 comments - Categorized in Safari Tips

2 Responses to “Creata A fully functioning Bookmarks bookmark in your Dock”

  1. 4Avatars
    Brad
    Maybe a stupid question. I have the bookmark in place per step one. Try as I might, I cannot drag this into the dock. It will not allow me to place it in the dock. What am I doing wrong? September 6th, 2008 at 5:56 am

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    Jonathan Rowson
    Will this work under Firefox? I've gotta play with this when I get home from work. I've found a proggie that lets you list ALL of your bookmarks in a little dropdown icon on the menubar. It's called AllBookmarks 3, it's Leopard compatible, and it's FREE. Here is the url:
    http://agilewebsolutions.com/products/AllBookmarks October 10th, 2008 at 7:30 am

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