Cecil said:
Maybe I need to rephrase my question.
Your method makes the bookmarks.html into the home page. However, the
Bookmarks page is (a) ugly (b) not practical to use.
But the utilities available for IE favorites organize the links so that
there's an attractive page (color customisable and so on) that starts with
links for all the Favorites folders and so forth.
There's got to be some Freeware meister somehwere who has come across this
and written a little app to produce a handsome, practical file just like
that for IE users.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzz
I can agree with you that it's ugly, but I don't find it impractical.
Using the "Find Text as you Type" feature of Mozilla makes it easy to
find what I'm looking for. Just type a / followed by the character
string you want to find.
Anyway, I'm not an IE user and I wasn't familiar with start page maker
software. I did a little looking around just out of my own curiosity and
found a couple of things for IE like you were writing about. In fact,
they're pretty cool. In case anyone's interested, ABC-EDUCA Startpage
Creator seems pretty slick. It's at
http://www.abc-educa.nl/ . Only for
IE, though. You have to provide your name and e-mail address and they
e-mail you download instructions. They seem OK, but I used a disposable
e-mail address all the same. (Oh, and the download instructions say
"Thank you for requesting an evaluation copy..." and then a couple of
paragraphs later say "As you've already noticed: The program is freeware.")
OK, so this doesn't answer your question about Mozilla. I couldn't find
anything, so maybe there just isn't anything for Mozilla yet.
I did come across something that might be of interest to you. Take a
look at
http://start.excudo.net/index.php
My Personal Startpage
There was no mention of a cost to use the service.
Andy.....................
Christopher Jahn