# Netscape 7.0 question

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netscape-7-0-question/165096>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 29, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netscape-7-0-question/165096 "2003-03-29T22:49:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netscape-7-0-question/165096/1 "2003-03-29T22:49:52Z")

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I finally bit the bullet and installed Netscape 7.0 – so far it’s pretty nice, aside from a few annoyances (like this message box I’m typing in is waaaay narrower than it should be…) but I’m hoping that eventually it will let me scrap IE altogether.

Got a problem, though…when Netscape imported all my IE bookmarks, instead of preserving them in alphabetical order, it kinda flung them in all willy-nilly. One of the few things I liked about IE was the ability to right-click and select “Sort By Name” which would automatically alphabetize the whole list. But I can’t find a similar way to do it in Netscape! Does anyone know how to do it?

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netscape-7-0-question/165096/2 "2003-03-29T22:57:46Z")

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Well, I completely agree with you. [It looks like it can’t be done](http://www.hmetzger.de/BookmarksSortingInNS7.html). That sucks.

But I did want to defend Netscape on that other point, the narrow textbox. It’s come up before, and Netscape renders it correctly. It’s IE that violates what the code says. 🙂

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netscape-7-0-question/165096/3 "2003-03-30T04:54:17Z")

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I guess the next question that follows is…why so narrow a reply box? 😉

Good Lord, I’ve got over 300 bookmarks in my “Sims” folder alone. I gotta sort ‘em all by hand??? Better get crackin’ I guess…

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**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/netscape-7-0-question/165096/4 "2003-03-30T05:11:02Z")

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[Here you go.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?&threadid=155792) It took me forever to find that thread, because I kept searching General Questions. :smack: