The bookmarking dialog is rather difficult to work with. You can greatly improve what you see by

1. Installing "Add Bookmark Here2" extension
2. Add the keyword to the dialog
3. if you don't use tags remove that from the dialog (there are 2 confusing drop-downs associated with it).

The extension will allow you to have the dialog always expanded, the collapsed view is worthless. There is a drop-down on the gray bar for recent folder choices, the drop down on the far right is for the all bookmarks starting from where you are at from the choice on the left and can scroll through all of your bookmarks link in the Bookmarks sidepanel.

The Addbookmark Here2 extension gets its name from being able to choose a folder in your bookmarks and bring the bookmark to the folder, which may be easier, but more important is that it gives you more options to work with.

• Add Bookmark Here ² :: Add-ons for Firefox
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-bookmark-here-2/
• Firefox Customizations (Notes)
  http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/firefox.htm#addbookmarkhere2
• http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/addbookmarkhere2.txt
• Firefox Keyword Shortcuts
  http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/firefox/kws.htm

For help working with your bookmarks and history see

• Bookmarks - MozillaZine Knowledge Base -- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmarks
• Sorting and rearranging bookmarks - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Sorting_and_rearranging_bookmarks_-_Firefox
• Viewing the browsing history - Firefox - MozillaZine Knowledge Base
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Viewing_the_browsing_history_-_Firefoxfox

If your are still interested you can add real scroll bars to menus (includes bookmark menus) and to context menus. You need to first install the "Stylish" extension

• Scrollbar Menu - Themes and Skins for Browser - userstyles.org
  http://userstyles.org/styles/52
• Scrollbar Context Menu - Themes and Skins for Browser - userstyles.org
  http://userstyles.org/styles/54
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/User:Dmcritchie

Note the kb.mozillazine.org server is currently down, you can pull up entries upon failure with a keyword bookmarklet (gc: or keyword name of your choice) from Google's cache.

• javascript:void(location.href='http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:'+location.href)

Well, I will try to add that extension but your answer is a little confusing. Thanks for trying though.

See also:

• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks

• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Sorting+bookmarks

Hello, I have the same problem. Is there a solution to this problem? Thanks

I'd sure like to see this get marked as solved by owner, and the "Add Bookmark Here2" extension is the best way that I know of making the bookmark dialog less confusing as well as adding a lot of useful functionality. Modifying Firefox with extensions, styles, and customizing the toolbars is what make Firefox the most useful of all browsers, in my opinion.

You complained that the selection box was too small, the extension increases that from 8 lines to 11 lines, it also shows you the location (url) of the bookmark you are working with and you can include the keyword line to make bookmarks useful again (particularly pre Firefox 3 users) and you can hide the tags line that makes things confusing, and the dialog is expanded without you having to expand the view yourself each time in order to use the dialog. You also wanted an easier way of bookmarking and the extension provides for right clicking on a folder in the sidebar and using "bookmark to here" as the extension's name implies - and possibly something you had in IE besides simply dragging the favicon from the toolbar to a folder.

But if you have a reluctance to installing extensions, I'll try to find documentation after a little explanation of what you see in the bookmarks dialog.

The folder: bar that tells you what folder the bookmark is already bookmarked in has an expansion arrow to the far right -- that arrow should always be pointed UP (^); otherwise, it is difficult/impossible to work with.

At that point there are two switchable areas to work from with the selection the one with the scrollbar from the expansion being "show all bookmarks", click on the vertical scroll thumb to see that anytime. The other is the drop-down from the folder bar which shows you (structure at top), the most recently bookmarked to folders (at bottom) which saves time if listed there. Notice the relatively minor shift where the drop-down obscures the show all bookmarks lists while the drop-down is active. Click on the scroll thumb to see show all bookmarks at anytime expansion (^) is active.

Anything you click on in the upper part of the drop-down list will change the view in the main show all bookmarks area.

Now for the documentation:

• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Bookmark_dialog
• https://support.mozilla.com/kb/how-do-i-use-bookmarks