Any recommendations for scrubbing old bookmarks?

dchandler · Jan 21, 2024

I supposed you could say its a new years resolution to get rid of the piles of outdated and non existent bookmarks I've hoarded over the past couple of decades. Yeah, it's been that long if not a wee bit longer!

Granted I could just export the bookmarks to a spreadsheet and then just go from jump again. That of course would require work!

If there is any app be it in browser or desktop app that could help me in my mission I'd really appreciate it!

Regards,
Dave

OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621

pseymour · Jan 21, 2024

You don’t mention which browser, but usually there are extensions in the browser’s extension or add-on “store” to do such things.

dchandler · Jan 21, 2024

My bad! MS Edge. I looked but didn't really see anything that fit the bill.

Berton · Jan 21, 2024

I looked in Edge and the Favorites [3 horizontal dots on toolbar] and didn't find an en masse deletion function, just one at a time.

pseymour · Jan 21, 2024

What about the Chrome web store? Chrome extensions work in Edge.

Edwin · Jan 21, 2024

Shift/Select first and last>Delete

Hazel123 · Jan 21, 2024

I’m in the same situation - about 10 years worth of Firefox bookmarks. Is there a quick way to delete a lot of them?

antspants · Jan 21, 2024

Hazel123 said:
I’m in the same situation - about 10 years worth of Firefox bookmarks. Is there a quick way to delete a lot of them?

You can go into Bookmarks/Manage Bookmarks and play around in there.

pseymour · Jan 21, 2024

Edwin said:
Shift/Select first and last>Delete

OP is trying to delete "piles of outdated and non existent bookmarks," not just mass-delete bookmarks willy-nilly.

Edwin · Jan 21, 2024

pseymour said:
OP is trying to delete "piles of outdated and non existent bookmarks," not just mass-delete bookmarks willy-nilly.

It's an alternative!

You got a better idea, I'm all ears.

pseymour · Jan 21, 2024

It's not an alternative. It does nothing to identify bookmarks that meet the criteria. And I did offer a better idea.

glasskuter · Jan 21, 2024

I installed Firefox, imported Edge favorites into it. I then deleted all bookmarks from Edge and organized my bookmarks within FF bookmark manager. (you can drag/drop, create folders, rename,delete multiples at once, basically manipulate just like files in file explorer with only minor differences)It was my original intention to then export from FF and import into Edge and uninstall FF. The thing was, I liked FF so much better than Edge, I stayed with it and never went back to using Edge. I'm hooked on Firefox.

Ghot · Jan 22, 2024

dchandler said:
get rid of the piles of outdated and non existent bookmarks I've hoarded over the past couple of decades

If you're trying to delete all of the bookmarks... that should be easy. (it is in Firefox)

If you're trying to "only delete ones you don't want anymore... there's no App or extension that can do that.
At least not until Musk gets done with his neural link thingy.

Stigg · Jan 22, 2024

I'm mainly a Firefox user, and I use Checkmarks and 404 Bookmarks addons to maintain my Bookmarks. Chrome may have something similar. If not, you could install Firefox and export your Bookmarks from Edge and import them into Firefox, then clean them up with one of the Firefox addons, then export and import them back into Edge.

Checkmarks – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Checkmarks for Firefox. Checks, sorts, formats bookmarks and loads favicons.

addons.mozilla.org

404 Bookmarks – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download 404 Bookmarks for Firefox. With this extension you can find expired bookmarks and remove them easily. You can find all kinds of broken bookmarks, like pages that return 404 (Page not found) or other HTTP errors.

addons.mozilla.org

A Guy · Jan 22, 2024

No personal experience, but

Bookmarks clean up - Chrome Web Store

Quickly clean up your bookmarks: remove duplicates, dead links, and empty folders, merge similar bookmark folders.

chromewebstore.google.com

Bookmarks Checker - Remove broken links - Chrome Web Store

Clean up bookmarks from junk. Batch check your bookmarks to find duplicates and broken bookmark links.

chromewebstore.google.com

They say they will find broken links and allow multi-deletions

A Guy

Stigg · Jan 22, 2024

A Guy said:
No personal experience, but

Bookmarks clean up - Chrome Web Store

Quickly clean up your bookmarks: remove duplicates, dead links, and empty folders, merge similar bookmark folders.

chromewebstore.google.com

Bookmarks Checker - Remove broken links - Chrome Web Store

Clean up bookmarks from junk. Batch check your bookmarks to find duplicates and broken bookmark links.

chromewebstore.google.com

They say they will find broken links and allow multi-deletions

A guy

There'll be a Chrome addon that does the job.
Maybe one of them will work good for the OP.

Hazel123 · Jan 22, 2024

Stigg said:
I'm mainly a Firefox user, and I use Checkmarks and 404 Bookmarks addons to maintain my Bookmarks. Chrome may have something similar. If not, you could install Firefox and export your Bookmarks from Edge and import them into Firefox, then clean them up with one of the Firefox addons, then export and import them back into Edge.

Checkmarks – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Checkmarks for Firefox. Checks, sorts, formats bookmarks and loads favicons.

addons.mozilla.org

404 Bookmarks – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download 404 Bookmarks for Firefox. With this extension you can find expired bookmarks and remove them easily. You can find all kinds of broken bookmarks, like pages that return 404 (Page not found) or other HTTP errors.

addons.mozilla.org

That's really useful, thanks - for my many years of Firefox bookmarks.

Kees · Jan 22, 2024

Stigg said:
404 Bookmarks – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download 404 Bookmarks for Firefox. With this extension you can find expired bookmarks and remove them easily. You can find all kinds of broken bookmarks, like pages that return 404 (Page not found) or other HTTP errors.

addons.mozilla.org

Installed it but there seems to happen nothing. No button appears (not in the configuration screen as well), no options in the addon itself, just the addon is there but it does not function. Temporarely disabled my chrome.css file as well, but that did not help too.

On the addon site there are rather many complaints about the extension not functioning.

So I removed the addon again from Firefox.

Edit: slight textcorrection (northing > nothing)

dchandler · Jan 22, 2024

Cause what I'm getting at is there are bookmarks that now either 403 or 404 errors. Those sites have been retired or the page has been removed. I guess it's going to be easier to just export them and then purge it all.

I thank you all for your input even though for other browsers!

pseymour · Jan 22, 2024

The links in post 15 are for Chrome extensions. They will work in Edge.

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