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Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by jollyllama »

m0guz wrote: post #90

I don't know how people think Firefox has feature-rich bookmark manager, probably never used a browser that cares about power-users. Firefox can't even open Bookmark manager in a new tab, whole bookmark feature hasn't improved in 15 years. Vivaldi has the best bookmark management in UX/UI. > i want to be able to quickly load common favourite news sites & blogs. Right click on a tab > Bookmark all tabs. Vivaldi create…

Hasn't improved in 15 years but at least you can still search within / by month. Can't do that in Brave.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by jollyllama »

dustractor wrote: post #81

I've been on a browser trying spree looking specifically for which has the best bookmark manager. Or at least [cough cough brave] not the worst bookmark manager.

It's so bad. But the rest of the browser is so good, I keep using it.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by adhesive_wombat »

FranklinMaillot wrote: post #174
adhesive_wombat wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you have search suggestions on, using "*" at the start will limit the suggestions to your bookmarks. "^" does history which is almost indecently useful.

And "%" to search in your open tabs. I also use @wikipedia or @amazon quite often.

I have set about 100 keyword searches too. Though I wish to use either Albert or Rofi for richer "as you type" suggestions and results.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by cadwag »

mg wrote: post #28

I 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…

I use histre (http://histre.com) to accomplish this functionality, not only within Firefox but across browsers, computers, and even colleagues.

My favorite feature is being able to save all tabs within a window, send a link to a co-worker, and have them open up all the tabs. It takes like 5 secs, end to end.

Best of all: if they have the histre extension as well, they can instantly open all the tabs at once and even see my highlights - it’s like being able to send a browser window state to another person!

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by tgflynn »

readonthegoapp wrote: post #15

i'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 s…

I'm currently working on a bookmark extension for Chrome, initially targeting my own needs, but I hope to make it available to others eventually. I'm wondering if there are any insights you could share about what factors led to the quality issues you mentioned.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by tgflynn »

alexashka wrote: post #129

You're largely alone. For news, people use RSS readers. For productivity - nobody's using more than a few tools, they keep them open. For rabbit holes - there's a save all tabs feature in chrome, you save into a folder. It sounds like you're testing the waters to see if there's demand for this and, there isn't :)

He's not alone. I also have a lot of bookmarks and would like to be able to use them more easily.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by All4All »

dmje wrote: post #125

Shout-out for raindrop.io. by far the best bookmarks manager I've ever used and damn I've tried em all

Second for raindrop! Having a dedicated app outside of any browser was initially what pulled me over. Simple UI that does just enough, without trying to tack on endless features that I would never use (like many alternatives do). The webpage archive feature itself has also saved me a handful of times.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by nebalee »

mg wrote: post #28

I 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…

  Right-Click on one of the open tabs, click "select all tabs", right-click it again and click "Bookmark Tabs"
Also, individual tabs can be added to the selection by Ctrl-Clicking them.

Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?

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Post by dfgsdfgwef »

mynameismon wrote: post #132
dfgsdfgwef wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vivaldi don't have tags hence useless when it comes to bookmarks.

You can use nicknames as tags, atleast that's what I do. Most of my actual bookmark management is actually done in Zotero though.

nicknames cannot be used as tags since it doesn't support auto complete/filter by tag etc. You should really check out FF tag system.Its really awesome.Vivaldi doesn't stand a chance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRIyAu79OrM
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