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Provide different options for sorting favorites - Discussion
Elliot Kirk, I would like to be able to right click on a folder in the Favorites Bar or an item inside a folder on the Favorites Bar and do the same "Sort by name" option that is now buried in the Organize Favorites page. This has been even in IE for years (click on any item inside a folder in Favorites Bar and select Sort by name). That's it for me.
Other than that, with Favorites, I would like a few nice-to-have features in the Organize Favorites area
- Refresh the Favicons for all Favorites without needing to open each one
- Find duplicate Favorites and show where they are. Don't auto-delete, because I would need to choose which folder holds the one I want, or if maybe in some cases I want to keep both.
- Check Favorites for dead links. Inevitably, some Favorites will expire as web sites shut down. It would be great to have an option to scan all Favorites for these so we can remove the dead ones.
Lower priority for me, but I would also like to be able able to set folders to auto-sort based on most frequently used (so they change automatically over time as some Favorites are used most often, but only a per-folder basis, because some folders I want to manually sort) and as several others here have suggested an ability to do a one time sort by Last Used Date, which would just be a one-time sort like the alphabetical sort. This would help both with knowing which one to try if a couple of Favorites look similar and also put the oldest ones at the bottom, which helps me find those to check them for possible removal.