Creating tab groups in Chimera via file editing

Dec 03, '02 07:58:13AM

Contributed by: Anonymous

I really liked the grouping feature of the toolbar links in Chimera but accidentally deleted them. I couldn't modify the bookmarks file using Chimera's pref panes, so instead I went into the bookmarks.xml file in ~/Library -> Application Support -> Chimera -> Profiles -> Default -> whatever.slt -> bookmarks.xml to modify it.

After comparing this to the default XML bookmarks file in the app, I found that adding the following to each XML attribute within the 'folder=' created a clickable group of links:

 group="true"
Just add this to any folder to create a clickable group again. For example, to create a folder of news sites that you have named "News" into a clickable group, make the folder entry look like this:
 <folder name="News" group="true">
[Editor's note: Although it's been discussed here before, as a quick reminder, you can create groups in Chimera by first opening new tabs with each site you want as a member of the group, then (on any tab) selecting Bookmarks -> Add Page to Bookmarks, and checking the "Bookmark all tabs" box.]

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