Although you can use Konqueror's bookmarks to record the locations of your own files and folders, they are most useful when you are surfing the Web, letting you build up a list of useful sites.
To open the menu you may either click on the menu or use the Alt+B shortcut. Once the list is visible, you can navigate through it with the arrow keys or with your mouse, then press Enter or click to visit the selected location.
To add a new item to the list use -> or Ctrl+B or click on a clear space in the web page or folder view and select from the pop up menu.
The list can contain subfolders containing other bookmarks, you can create these with -> . To add a bookmark into a subfolder rather than into the main Bookmark list, select the folder from within the list and use the item in that folder.
You can also access your bookmarks from the Navigation Panel.
The -> option opens the Bookmark Editor.
This shows a tree view of your bookmarks and bookmark subfolders. As is usual for tree views in KDE, subfolders are shown with a small square at the left of the folder name; if the square contains a + sign clicking on it will expand the view to show the contents of that subfolder and the + sign will change to -, clicking on the - sign will collapse the subfolder view.
To select an item in the list you can Up arrow and Down arrow keys to move around, Right arrow to expand a subfolder and Left arrow to collapse it.
click on it, or you can navigate through the list by using theYou can move an item to a different place in the list by using the normal Drag and Drop or and methods. The order in which the items appear in the Bookmark Editor is the order they will appear in the drop down list. The -> option can be used to insert separating lines into the list wherever you wish.
A new subfolder can be created at the selected point in the list by using the option in the menu or from the drop down menu you get when you click on an item in the main part of the window, or with Ctrl+N
To change the name of a bookmark or folder select it then press F2 or choose the item from the menu or the pop up menu that appears when you click on the item. Similarly, you can edit the URL by pressing F3 or choosing the menu item.
The Bookmark Editor lets you import bookmarks from a range of other browsers into Konqueror's bookmark list, putting them into a new folder or replacing all current bookmarks. To do this select from the menu. The -> option can be used to export Konqueror's bookmarks to a Netscape® or Mozilla browser.
If you often use the Netscape® browser as well as Konqueror, then rather than importing your Netscape® bookmarks into Konqueror it is better to select the item in the menu. If you do this any updates to Netscape®'s bookmarks are automatically seen by Konqueror.
To select which bookmark subfolder is used to hold the Bookmark Toolbar items select the subfolder then choose from the menu.
If you are tidying up your bookmarks and have forgotten what a particular web page is, you can easily open it from within the Bookmark Editor by clicking on the item and selecting from the pop up menu. If you just want to check that the URL is still valid select instead.
Don't forget to save your changes with -> or Ctrl+S before you leave the Bookmark Editor.
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