Windows 10: Use multiple bookmark files

I have a lot of bookmarks. I am amazed at how little link rot I have, probably since most of them are from solid sites.

In the very olden days, when I used Internet Explorer (before I moved on to Chrome, and then to Firefox) I just put the topical or age-based batches in separate .htm files, and did the renaming processes to bring the batch I wanted to use into the browser.

I'd like to do something like that again. I've been using Firefox, so I investigated doing something like this in it, and I cannot see a way forward. I investigated the Profile Manager, which seemed to me to be even more awkward than my name-swapping method, and it seems to not be really supported now anyway. Nothing I read about Containers seems to be about this issue. I didn't search as diligently for Chrome work-arounds, but didn't find any path to a solution there either.

I see Explorer was succeed by Edge and now Chromium, and I don't know what the bookmark format is for either, or if there is a way to use the Microsoft browser for my purpose.

Any ideas? I posted here because I saw a response to a really gnarly bookmark issue (not at all like what I want to do) in this forum, so I know there are super experts here.

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Bookmarks in Microsoft Edge

Hello Bruce,

Based on your concern about bookmarks in Edge, we would like to know some additional information to better isolate the issue:

• Did you get any error messages?
• Have you done any changes on your computer prior to the issue?

We suggest that you try the troubleshooting steps provided by Karthicka_R on this

link.

We will wait for your response.

 

Deleting old bookmarks

I have bookmarks dating back to Windows 98. Is there a program, or command to find and delete dead individual bookmarks in Internet Explorer 11? I ran AM-DeadLink and it listed 400 dead links, but it no longer has a delete function. Thanks for any suggestions.

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bookmarks toolbar

Hi Leonard,

To better assist you regarding bookmarks toolbar in Microsoft Edge, we recommend that you follow these easy quick steps on how to add bookmarks. To do this, follow the steps below:

• Open Microsoft Edge, then on the address bar type a specific website (e.g. www.facebook.com).
• Click the Star button, from the drop-down list select
  Favorites Bar then click on Save.
  
  
  
  
• You can see that the web address will be added in the toolbar.

Let us know if the solution above works for you.