October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Open Yahoo! Bookmarks in a Sidebar
The easiest way to take your Yahoo! Bookmarks out for a surfing binge is by tacking them up in a browser sidebar.
Once you’ve invested the time and energy into building your Yahoo! Bookmarks collection, you’ll be ready to take them for a spin. Of course, you can view them in My Yahoo!, where they’re meant to be displayed, but it’s also useful to bring them up in a browser sidebar for quick surfing. This saves you the trouble of opening the sites in a new window and losing your place, and it lets you focus on seeing what’s new at your favorite sites.
One problem with this plan is that you can’t isolate your Yahoo! Bookmarks to their own page. They’re fully integrated with the My Yahoo! page. Fortunately, Jason B. Silverstein at Yahoo! pointed out a little-known page that does isolate your Yahoo! Bookmarks into their own space: http://my.yahoo.com/tearoff/sites.html. This page is used to display bookmarks inside Yahoo! Messenger, but there’s no reason you can’t use it to build your own sidebar.
To use the sidebar, you’ll need to be logged in at My Yahoo!. But once that’s taken care of, your new isolated Yahoo! Bookmarks will be ready to go.
A Firefox Sidebar
The Firefox browser makes quick work of opening web pages in a sidebar. Simply navigate to the Yahoo! Bookmarks URL and choose Bookmarks → Bookmark This Page… from the Firefox menu (or Ctrl-D if you’re a fan of keyboard shortcuts). Then give the bookmark a descriptive name, such as Y!Bookmarks Sidebar. ...
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