I previously used Workona, that let you create groups, and you can send the tabs to those groups, it kinda worked, but was clunky, now (because I use macOS) I use tab groups from Safari, it works pretty well, but I hope other browsers take note and implement something similar (extensions can do it too, but I don’t want to rely on extensions for this, extensions can be dangerous, so I want to keep the minimum possible).
Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
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Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#142Firefox on Android seems to have just given up on bookmarks.
You can't even EDIT THEM (seriously) let alone order them in folders or pin them etc. Open, edit or share, that's it, and the last of which I think perhaps three people have ever done, and only by accident.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#143Others have commented that Chrome does this already. Edge also does all or almost all these things. Bookmarks bar might be disabled by default, but iirc it is a right-click away, and only has to be configured once. Safari also supports everything here. The “Tab Groups” feature in combination with the bookmarks bar (which safari also supports) makes it super easy to maintain persistent tab sets or just keep certain th…
> Edge also does all or almost all these things
I'm not a heavyweight user of bookmarks. But I do love vertical tabs and grouping, which can be collapsed. Moreover, they can be saved to collections (to get rid from tabs) and collection can are restored as groups. Notes can be added to collections or entries, tho I don't use it
Anyway, not that there would be some kind of search for collections - not even the URL bar detects items in there.
https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/02/tab-groups-in-microsoft-ed...
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#144personally I have switched to a plugin called "OneTab" in all my browsers. its super nice because it just adds a button to your browser to store all open windows in OneTab, which basically is just and endless html page on which i can search on. This leads to me saving all open tabs onto it when im rebooting and later on just removing those that i dont like quickly by window instead of one by one. It has import and ex…
the plugin is probably more comfortable, but I think "bookmark all open tabs" chrome and firefox have. something I recently learnt is that in firefox you can search all open tabs by starting with % in the adressbar
well true but the advantage of the plugin is more that its not really that persistent.
For instance: when I research a new topic i sometimes have 20 open tabs out of which i really want to bookmark none, but as long as i am working on the issue i want to be able to use them still. This is where onetab shines, because it lets me remove all, lets call them virtual bookmarks, that have been gerated by one specific window. Henceforth i can use a window more like a topic of interest and am totally able to "hibernate" on research. and when i come back i just click "open all tabs" on the index and will be goot do go:
I believe my actual point was, that I have much more stuff that i like to store temporarily, instead of a "permanent bookmark" and the ability to remove bookmarks by "window" really allows me to ogranize myself better.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#145i would love if bookmarks would act more like outliners such as dynalist or workflowy. i would like to able to focus in on one folder on the sidebar and have nothing else showing. currently when you have things organised in folders and subfolders, the 1st level of subfolders are indented, the 2nd level are indented even more and eventually you have to scroll sideways to see things. and having shortcuts to get back to…
> at the moment firefox only searches for bookmarks, not folders
Yes, annoying. I've set Firefox to export bookmarks to .html each time it closes and then use scripts to search in that HTML for folder names. Messy, but beats manually scrolling around in a very long list of bookmark folders in the Firefox UI.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#146I actually dont mind bookmarks being hidden away but I would love an interface similar to spotlight but for opening bookmarks I never know where i've put them only that they have blah in the name!
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#147Firefox on Android seems to have just given up on bookmarks. You can't even EDIT THEM (seriously) let alone order them in folders or pin them etc. Open, edit or share, that's it, and the last of which I think perhaps three people have ever done, and only by accident.
editing and creating bookmarks, as well as organising them into folders, as well as opening multiple bookmarks/folders simultaneously and bookmarking multiple tabs at the same time all work fine for me on Firefox on Android
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#148I think firefox has everything you need already. I use librewolf in linux but any firefox on a desktop OS should behave in the way I describe below. > i want rich bookmark behavior. This points needs specifics. What do we mean by rich? what are the outcomes we're trying to achieve? > i want to be able to quickly load common favorite news sites & blogs. > or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites. This can…
> This can be easily achieved through folders in a bookmarks toolbar. For example I have a folder called 'News' with my top 4 sites. When I open the browser, I just right-click on the 'News' folder, click on "open all bookmarks" and those sites open on a tab each. One click and half a second... very efficient! Even more efficient, you can Ctrl left click the bookmark folder, or even more even more efficient, middle c…
You'd have to find the bookmark folder first. The bookmark manager is old, crufty and hard to use. The bookmark bar is unusable with the keyboard, only usable with a mouse, and badly. Bookmarks lack metadata such as "added at date" or "added on company laptop".
And don't even get me started about mobile browsers...
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#149I don't know about Chrome, but in Firefox: Chrome now hides the bookmark bar by default Not sure if it is the default, but my Firefox bookmark bar is always visible load common favorite news sites & blogs or load a window with all my productivity SaaS sites. Shift+Click on a bookmark folder does that pick up where i left off on a research rabbit hole Right-Click on one of the open tabs, click "select all tabs", right…
Middle click on a bookmark folder will work as well, opening the tabs in the same window, which is what I want to do most of the time. Shift-click opens them in a new window.
I've been including it as step one in my work routine for over a year now, it's so much easier to pick work back up the next morning when I can be exactly where I left off the night before
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#150Firefox on Android seems to have just given up on bookmarks. You can't even EDIT THEM (seriously) let alone order them in folders or pin them etc. Open, edit or share, that's it, and the last of which I think perhaps three people have ever done, and only by accident.
Yes, mobile Firefox was great until version ~60 something. You could install all the extensions from the store. But now there's like only 18 extensions for mobile.
But there is another way to organize bookmarks like one would expect.
_shameless plug_
You can use Websktop webapp for this. That way you'll have a fully customizable grid of bookmarks. It could look like this:
