It's really strange how bookmarking capability has regressed. I was using seamonkey for a long time just because it had bookmark folders. RSS sorta kinda achieves the same effect. Qutebrowser sessions and quickmarks are nice, but not quite the same level of ease.
Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
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#12Session manager that saves all pages during session and chrome tab/tab grouping states is way to go
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#13> i want rich bookmark behavior.
> i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs.
> or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites.
That is behavior that Firefox had more than 15 years ago, and still does. I used it frequently, until I learned about RSS, which is a vastly superior solution to the same problem.
Is it really necessary to post weird e. e. cummings-style art pieces about how you long for functionality you already have?
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#14It's really strange how bookmarking capability has regressed. I was using seamonkey for a long time just because it had bookmark folders. RSS sorta kinda achieves the same effect. Qutebrowser sessions and quickmarks are nice, but not quite the same level of ease.
I've noticed that a lot of people I know, even people who work in IT, have regressed on this point - they do not know how to use bookmarks, they just search for something and hope they land on the right page, and if they can't find it they ask someone else to send them a link... The regression of bookmarks in browser is probably partly related to this regression in user behavior (and associated telemetry)
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#15i've had a couple of bookmark-type extensions built over the years but quality was usually garbage, including the ones i wrote from scratch, so they all eventually got abandoned.
i still am able to do much of what i want natively - def not all.
like, i have a 'News' tab that i right click to open 32 media sites that give me all the ways the world is prob going to end today.
i have a bunch of 'search engine and site search' shortcuts that get me to all sorts of places - right click the location/url bar and go from there.
google/chrome type-ahead/lookahead pulls up a few of the sites i like to go to.
i've recently gotten better about opening the bookmarks with a shortcut and then searching for a keyword for some bookmark i want.
last time i built my own bookmark extension, i had 8,000+ bookmarks, i think. prob never looked at most more than once.
maybe google is just too good?
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#16> Chrome now hides the bookmark bar by default
I haven't used Chrome in a while, but doesn't the bar show up when you open a new tab (and hides when some site is on the tab)? I thought it was a nice intuitive behavior for most people.
> i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs.
> or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites
You can move those sites into a folder, and one-click-open that folder.
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#17I use this extension called one tab ( https://www.one-tab.com/ ) which saves all the currently open tabs into a list which can be given a name! This is the most helpful extension that I've installed on my browser.
Somewhat similar to Tab Groups in Safari.
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#18You are not alone. I found raindrop that meets my needs.
cool i'll check out raindrop, thanks for the tip! but i just wish there were some talented engineering teams at the leading browser creators (cough couch google, mozilla, MS, apple, etc) that would integrate this as a first class feature. a design goal, not a supported extension.
Firefox has a decent bookmark system. What I do usually is star it (one click) and I think you need to click it again to edit it, you can then add tags to it.
Search is a lot easier then.
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#19This question makes me wonder...what are some examples of "first class citizens in browsers" to you?
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#20For quickly loading bookmarks, I made an extension that lets you open or add a bookmark by typing a keyword for it into the address bar:
https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks
I use it constantly (probably hundreds of times per day) to load common pages I use for running by business and living my life.