Bookmarks

The bookmarks star icon, used to quickly bookmark sites

Bookmarks are the Firefox equivalent of the favorites in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer or bookmarks in most Chromium-based browsers. They are quick links to sites, that when clicked on, takes the user to the page bookmarked. There are three types of bookmarks: the Bookmarks Toolbar, the Bookmarks Menu, and Other Bookmarks.

Bookmarks Toolbar

 The Bookmarks Toolbar is the menu that normally appears under the address bar at the top of the Firefox window. The toolbar persists across pages, and clicking on a bookmark in the Bookmarks Toolbar will replace the page currently open in the tab with the page that the bookmark clicked navigates to.

Bookmarks Sidebar

The Bookmarks Sidebar shows all your bookmarks in a convenient toolbar to the right of your screen. The sidebar displays bookmarks from your Bookmarks Toolbar, Bookmarks Menu, Other Bookmarks, and bookmarks from your mobile devices (if the user uses a Firefox account to sync your desktop and mobile browsers) from the sidebar.

Bookmarks Menu

The Bookmarks Menu is a menu where bookmarks can be stored. On macOS, the Bookmarks Menu can be seen by clicking "Bookmarks" in the Menu Bar. Bookmarks in the Bookmarks Menu are also displayed in the "Bookmarks Menu" folder in the Bookmark Sidebar and Bookmark Manager.

Other Bookmarks

Other Bookmarks, previously known as Unsorted Bookmarks, are bookmarks that have not been put in the Bookmarks Toolbar or Bookmarks Menu. These bookmarks are put in a folder on the right side of the Bookmarks Toolbar if enabled, and are also available in the Bookmarks Manager and Bookmarks Sidebar.

Storage method

Before Firefox 3.0, Firefox used the traditional HTML method to store bookmarks. Firefox 3 and above stores bookmarks using an SQLlite database to improve speed and make searching for bookmarks easier.