Simple method to store additional set of bookmarks for Firefox browser

Question

I often come across interesting websites while browsing with Firefox. These are sites that I may, or may not, have time to go back to view.

I don't want to add these sites to the regular Firefox bookmarks because then they will appear in the location bar suggestions. (I could turn off bookmarks for location bar suggestions, but I want my regular bookmarks to still appear.)

I wind up just keeping a text file with all these URLs. It gets unmanageable and chaotic very quickly. Plus, cutting and pasting into the file is tedious.

Is there a Firefox extension, or other solution, to have essentially two sets of bookmarks: one that is used by for location bar suggestions, and one that is not.

Requirements:

• Must be offline (does not store bookmarks "in the cloud")
• Must handle thousands of bookmarks (acceptable limit is about 5000)
• Gratis or very low cost
• Windows compatible

Not needed:

• Encryption
• Passwords

Already tried:

• Save-To-Read - Bookmarks still appear in location bar suggestions. Also difficult to remove bookmarks.

Answer 1

When I read your requirements correctly, a combination of two Firefox addons could do the job:

Markdown Editor allows you to open/create, edit, and save Markdown documents – using a syntax you're already familiar with from Stack Exchange. This would include e.g. nested lists and hyperlinks:

^{Markdown Editor (source: Mozilla.org; click images for larger variants)}

As the second screenshot shows, the addon's split view feature would allow you to "click" those links. To make "capturing" links easier, I'd recommend a second addon:

CoLT (short for "Copy Link Text") makes it easy to copy either a link's text, or both the link text and its URL in a format you specify. This non-invasive extension simply appears as context menu items when you right-click a link. Fully customizable!

^{CoLT (source: Mozilla.org; click images for larger variants)}

I use CoLT myself for years already – and I use it a lot in a similar way as I'm suggesting here: to insert links into Markdown documents (only that most of those Markdown "documents" are answers on SE sites), so I can at least vouch for this part.

Edit:

As akavel pointed out in the comments, there's also Easy Copy – which somewhat acts like "CoLT on steroids" (much more configurable and feature rich). Make your own choice here :) For example, with Easy Copy you can configure to get a selected fragment of text from a website into clipboard too, using the following snippet:

* [%page_title%](%page_url%) (%date%)

    > %selection%

Now let's see how my combination matches your requirements:

• Must be offline (does not store bookmarks "in the cloud"): Check.
• Must handle thousands of bookmarks (acceptable limit is about 5000): you didn't specify across how many documents they can be split, so: Yes, at least when spread about several documents :) Not sure if the editor has a limit – and if, where it lies.
• Gratis or very low cost: Gratis, but donations accepted (both addons)
• Windows compatible: I cannot test that currently – but at least for CoLT the answer is a definitive yes (have used it on Windows already when at my customers' places)
• The functionality of a bookmark must include storing a URL that, when clicked, opens a web site: Yupp, see "split view".

Conclusion: If it's acceptable to use two addons to accomplish the task, these two should do. If not, CoLT could be substituted by (Easy Copy and/or) additional handiwork :)