How To Delete All Bookmarks in FireFox

If you try to delete all your bookmarks in FireFox 12 using the drop down bookmarks selector tab it will only let you delete them one at a time. This is the same for every FireFox version I have used. For some reason holding the Shift key on your keyboard while one of your bookmarks is highlighted and pressing down as in to select more then one bookmark at a time has been disabled, or just doesn’t seem to work. I think Internet Explorer is the same in this respect.

To be able to select all the bookmarks in Firefox using the shift key and the directional pad on your keyboard first go to the Bookmarks tab > Click Show all Bookmarks > then click Bookmarks Menu in the sidebar. Now you should see all your bookmarked pages in the big window next to the sidebar. From here you can now select one of your bookmarks so that it is highlighted, then just press and hold down the shift key and use the directional pad on your keyboard to select all bookmarks one by one and then delete which ones you don’t want anymore in bulk.

If you want to delete everything, whilst still on the Bookmarks Menu you can just press the “Organise” tab at the top of the page then press select all and right click the selected items, select the delete option and delete all bookmarks in one go.