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Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by damat »

sigi45 wrote: post #296

Yes. I hide my bookmarkbar on tabs and only see them on new tab. I have in my bookmark bar the most used sites. I have a few folders for topics and for work bookmarks. Bookmarks help me to close a tab. It gives me the feeling that i still can read it but i don't have to do so now. Sometimes, depending on the content, i pocket it instead of using a bookmark for it.

I have just the same use cases! Could please try my extension for bookmarks on the new page: https://goo.gl/cjl0Pg ? Any feedback is very welcome

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by spectistcles »

jbmorgado wrote: post #284
spectistcles wrote: post #62

I use them in Chrome all the time, I have thousands — I basically search them as kind of a personal google... for those "Oh I remember reading an article about that once, let me find it"

Yeah, but how do you find that only from the title? Many times the title doesn't really represent what I remember about the article and that was in the corpus of the article.

Yeah it's a bit hit or miss because of that — I really wish I could literally make my bookmarks a private Google of content I've seen. Usually there are a series of things I try like "I think it was on X site" or a few keywords that I think were in the title. It works for me maybe 80% of the time.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by abhinickz »

kakarot wrote: post #429
abhinickz wrote: post #427

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see this on chrome with this URL: chrome://predictors/

That's pretty cool, do you know if a similarly accessible list exists in Firefox?

No, I think If similar list would exist that will be accessible from about:about in Firefox Which I can see that it doesn't.

Like in chrome chrome://about/ list every chrome secure pages.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by holygoat »

ethagnawl wrote: post #332
Cyph0n wrote: post #185

I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection. For instance, maybe I'm looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing "postgres" and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot o…

Firefox's bookmarks are _mostly_ great. I keep running into an issue when re/naming folders, though. I'll type a few letters and the dialog will close. So, if I was intending to type "a very interesting topic", I'll wind up with something like "a very int". This has been happening for years and I should really submit a bug report...

Might be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697649, or something linked from there.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by holygoat »

philamonster wrote: post #374
Cyph0n wrote: post #185

I have a ton of bookmarks, but I use them passively. From my experience, Firefox is the undisputed king of making sure anything you type in the address bar will be instantly checked against your bookmark collection. For instance, maybe I'm looking for a PostgresSQL tutorial. I start typing "postgres" and one of the bookmarks I forgot about from several months back appears. This approach has ended up saving me a lot o…

I've been running Fx sync ver 1.1 (EoL fall 2015) @home for almost 5 years now on a tiny vm but have not taken the time to move over to 1.5. This requires (since Fx version 32-ish maybe) to keep old installers (ver 28 is the furthest back I go) around for any platform if I re-image or add a machine I want to carry my bookmarks to and then upgrade to latest once sync is complete. iOS _used_ to work but that was the fi…

You should really take the time to set up 1.5, or just use Mozilla's hosted sync service. You're probably burning more time schlepping installers around and doing upgrades… not to mention the Sync 1.1 server code is ancient, so the infra you're running it on is probably riddled with vulnerabilities.

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by ethagnawl »

holygoat wrote: post #437
ethagnawl wrote: post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Firefox's bookmarks are _mostly_ great. I keep running into an issue when re/naming folders, though. I'll type a few letters and the dialog will close. So, if I was intending to type "a very interesting topic", I'll wind up with something like "a very int". This has been happening for years and I should really submit a bug report...

Might be https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697649 , or something linked from there.

Yeah, that looks to be it. Thanks for digging this up!

Re: Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

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Post by Bluestrike2 »

asaddhamani wrote: post #370
Houshalter wrote: post #76

Of course, and I'm surprised many people don't. Chrome handles bookmarks well, automatically syncing them between different machines you are signed in on. I used to have them nicely organized into different folders but now it's a bit of a mess... It's especially useful to deal with tab explosion. Control+D and you can just save all your tabs in a single folder (and never look at them again.) The biggest problem is li…

> The biggest problem is linkrot. This is a problem that I was tired of dealing with, and hence I made https://github.com/crestify/crestify It archives all bookmarks to archive.org and archive.today.

Very nice. I love the idea of integrating tab saving with bookmarks. OneTab is great, but it's easy to rack up a stupendous number of saved links, with really important ones lost in the accumulated junk.

I've bounced back and forth through a couple different approaches and tools. I have a ton of browser bookmarks in Chrome, many of which are old even after I did some cleanup work a while ago. Plus Instapaper. And, of course, a ton of saved tabs in OneTab. I've toyed with a couple of open-source tools like unmark and bookmarks.public (git-based, which sounds fun but is really just a couple extra steps removed from your browser), but never really found something that satisfied all of my needs.

https://github.com/plainmade/unmark https://github.com/skx/bookmarks.public

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