Ask HN: Does anybody still use bookmarking services?

Post by hhh » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 9:55 PM UTC

TillE wrote: post #306

bravasaurus wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is how I discovered Safari on iOS has a hard limit of 500 open tabs. Rather horrifyingly, when you try to open tab number 501, it asks if you want to close all open tabs.

It's strange to me that browsers - both desktop and mobile - aren't more aggressive about "paging out" unused tabs. I end up just restarting Firefox now and then when I'm not ready to do a full cleanup. Even with the fancy mobile interface you really just need to store a thumbnail (plus the URL and title) for each tab, and even an older iPhone should have little trouble scrolling through thousands of tiny images.

Post by abraxas » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 10:01 PM UTC

Post by makapuf » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

rsolva wrote: post #52

I have tried many different solutions the last two decades, but none of of them really stuck or became useful over time. I kinda gave up and as a last ditch effort started to do the simplest thing I could think of: ctrl+D to add bookmarks in Firefox, jotting down a few keywords on each entry. No folders, no structure, just a flat list and some keywords. A few months in I noticed how powerful this simple system was. W…

Post by bueno » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

Post by delvallejonatan » Thu, Jun 23, 2022, 10:18 PM UTC