main list and not within any particular subfolder. 5. Click OK to create the new bookmark. The bookmark appears immediately on the Bookmarks menu and in the Bookmarks Sidebar in the location that you chose in Step 4. Creating multiple bookmarks at once If you browse with tabs (see Chapter 7 for more information), you can bookmark multiple open tabs at once into a single bookmarks folder. Later, you can open each bookmark individually in the usual way - by opening the folder and clicking it - or you can open all the bookmarks in the folder at one time, as I discuss in "Opening multiple bookmarks at once," later in this chapter. To bookmark your open tabs, follow these steps: 1. Open each page you want to bookmark in a separate tab within the Firefox window. 2. 3. Enter a folder name. Firefox creates a new folder to contain the bookmarks. 4. Choose a location for the new folder. By default, Firefox creates the folder in your Bookmarks list alongside regular bookmarks. However, you can also choose to create it inside another folder (that is, you can make it a subfolder). 5. Click OK to create the new folder and bookmarks. Creating a bookmark that auto-updates Bookmarks are a great way to access your favorite Web sites quickly, but in some ways, they're a curse. You might find yourself visiting Web sites for updates five or six times a day just because they're so easy to access. Thanks to an emerging technology called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), Firefox can bring the updates to you from any Web site that supports RSS. Bookmarks in special folders can update automatically to show you new content, which saves you time. These so-called live bookmarks are based on the simple idea that a Web site is really a type of folder. CNN.com, for example, is nothing more than a collection - or folder - of various items, which in this case are news stories. Similarly, your friend's blog (short for Web log, which is an online journal or diary) is like a folder of journal entries. You already know that you can organize your bookmarks into folders. But you can also create live bookmark folders of any RSS-enabled Web site. Firefox automatically fetches new items posted to the Web site - including news stories, journal entries, and so on - and presents each new item to you as a separate bookmark. You access these live folders the same way you do all other folders. The only difference is that the bookmarks in the folder change as the Web site it points to is updated with new content. Firefox comes with a live bookmark folder by default so you can see how they work. It's called Latest Headlines, and it sits on your Bookmarks Toolbar. The folder contains the latest news headlines straight from BBC News, an RSS-enabled Web site. To subscribe to additional Web sites in this fashion, follow these steps: 1. Visit the Web site for which you want to create a live bookmark. If the Web site supports RSS, you see the orange-and-white subscribe image to the right of the Location Bar, as shown in Figure 5-2. If this image does not appear, the Web site doesn't support RSS, and you can't create a live bookmark. Plenty of sites these days support RSS. For an example, try http://www.cnn.com. Figure 5-2: Some Web sites offer self-updating news feeds. 2. Click the subscribe image. A menu appears containing the list of information sources, or feeds, that the Web site offers. For example, CNN allows you to subscribe to all recent stories or only the top stories.