Clickable livemarks
Click a Live Bookmark’s folder to quickly access its home page.
LiveClick derives its name from the extension’s original function: turning Live Bookmark folders into clickable bookmarks. Say you subscribe to a site’s Live Bookmark. Firefox consumes the feed and adds the individual feed items to your bookmarks menu (and the toolbar, if you placed your Live Bookmark there). This is great when you want to access the latest news or blog items from the site, but it isn’t as efficient as it should be when you want to access the site’s home page. To do that, you’d have to click a feed item, wait for the page to load, find the link to the home page, and then wait for that to load. Or worse, you could create a separate static bookmark to the home page.
Take a look at this cluttered bookmarks folder.
Before LiveClick
Longer menus, redundant bookmarks, only half of which are actually clickable.
With LiveClick, you eliminate the need for extra clicks and extra bookmarks. Just click the livemark (the Live Bookmark folder, see the cursor in the screenshot below). LiveClick also adds a couple of options to the popup menu, like “Open [Location]” or “Open Feed” if you prefer to navigate that way. Look at the folder, now optimized for LiveClick.
After LiveClick
Fewer bookmarks, all clickable, plus popup options. Click the livemark to open the Live Bookmark’s Site Location, usually the home page.
The Live Bookmark’s feed determines what page to load when you click its livemark. View the properties of a Live Bookmark to see what its Site Location is and change it, if desired.
Live Bookmark Properties
View and edit a Live Bookmark’s Site Location via its properties.
What does “Open Feed” do?
The “Open Feed” command lets you view a simple web page representing the Live Bookmark’s feed. This brings Firefox one step closer to becoming an entirely browser-based feed viewer.
How do I add a Live Bookmark?
Firefox automatically discovers RSS feeds offered by the site you’re viewing. When this happens, you’ll see the orange RSS icon 
on the far right side of the address bar (aka awesome bar). Click it. If there are multiple feeds, you’ll see a menu from which you can select the desired feed.
At this point, you may see a simple web page representing the feed. Use the form at the top to subscribe to the feed using “Live Bookmarks” and click the “Subscribe Now” button. You can also “Always use Live Bookmarks to subscribe to feeds.”
Confirm the “Subscribe with Live Bookmark” dialog that appears and you’re all set.
LiveClick provides additional ways to add Live Bookmarks. Click here for more information on this feature.
How do I change a Live Bookmark’s Site Location?
Open a Live Bookmark’s properties dialog to view and modify its Site Location.
I clicked on a livemark but it didn’t go to the page I expected. Why?
- or - Nothing happens when I click on a livemark. Why?
- or - I get a prompt saying a Live Bookmark has no location. Why?
Firefox automatically determines the “Site Location” based on information from the Live Bookmark’s feed. Open the Live Bookmark’s properties dialog to view and modify its Site Location.
Why doesn’t LiveClick work with livemarks on the bookmarks toolbar?
Unlike livemarks in the bookmarks menu and livemarks in a folder/subfolder of the bookmarks toolbar, moving your mouse over a livemark located directly on the bookmarks toolbar will not open up the submenu that contains the feed items. You can only display those feed items by clicking the livemark, which means you can’t apply LiveClick to it. You can, however, use the “Open [Location]” link that pops up in the submenu.
When I middle click a livemark, it no longer opens in tabs. Why?
By default, LiveClick emulates the behavior of middle clicking a bookmark so that when you middle click a livemark, it opens the specified location in a new tab. You can restore the default Firefox behavior (which is to open all feed items in tabs when you middle click a livemark) by visiting LiveClick’s options.
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