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.
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?
#82I 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 do not know for Chrome BUT on Firefox you can normally ignore bookmarks in a bar or menu using a normally quicker and more effective direct bookmark search&narrow using the search bar starting with an asterisk.
Similarly the ampersand search in history.
We have nearly abandoned menu as UI elements because a CLI-alike search&narrow UI is better in general, just file managers remain lagging behind with their crappy UI...
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#83I 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 think FF has some sort of responsive /platform layout thing going on with the browser, my FF developer in a crappy windows laptop has a slightly different layout where the top menu is hidden within a hamburger icon on the right and that is different on my bigger mac display. Which makes sense, I don't have a lot of real estate on this machine (need to tell the work it's not going to cut it I guess)
Right-click the hamburger icon, toggle Menu bar and/or Bookmark toolbar.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#84I thought it was a commonly held thought that Google didn't want Chrome users using bookmarks because it directly competed with their search (and advertising).
Vertical screen space was very precious when Chrome came out. I remember their first feature over Firefox was moving tabs into the title bar and removing the menu bar, bookmark bar and bottom status bar, so saving about four bars of space for page contents. Since launch, they've reduced the vertical space of the tab bar/title bar, even as screens gained more pixels. Original design- https://www.google.com/googlebooks…
And that's why Tab Center Reborn (formerly Tab Center Redux) FF extension came to live, while vertical space is scarce on modern monitors horizontal is ample normally.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#85Based on the comments (lot explain how to do X in Firefox), it seems the question should be "Why are Bookmarks 2nd class citizens in Chrome"
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#86personally 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 export functions too so i dont need to worry about it. Furthermore because it also has an inbuild douplicate scanner.
IMHO its been a long time since I made a REAL bookmark. Otherwise browser completion has become really good, for instance "yc" will show me hackernews so its much quicker to just tab into the address bar and be on my way.
Funny enough, the bigger my screen gets the less of advertisement icons I want on it, so removing the fav bar really has gone unnoticed by me. I have more grief with firefox removing the reload button from the adress bar, but i bet thats just a random setting somewhere.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#87I 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 think FF has some sort of responsive /platform layout thing going on with the browser, my FF developer in a crappy windows laptop has a slightly different layout where the top menu is hidden within a hamburger icon on the right and that is different on my bigger mac display. Which makes sense, I don't have a lot of real estate on this machine (need to tell the work it's not going to cut it I guess)
>that is different on my bigger mac display
How? Maybe you're talking about Mac's global menu bar?
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#88I swear I don't understand of some people seems to be using browsers... Let me know if the following sound weird to you, this is what I usually do... I have 3 browser windows: - Chrome window with personal Google Account and 2-5 tabs - Chrome window with company Google Account and 2-5 tabs - A third browser window as a media player ( https://github.com/curzel-it/pipper ) Bookmark bar is set to always visible, and I h…
This sounds a lot like how I work too. If I have to open a bunch of tabs it’s usually temporary and I’ll want to get rid of them again at the earliest opportunity.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#89I 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…
> What I do miss is a way to back them up from the command line.
I think a solution can be easily scripted seeing as firefox stores its internal data in multiple sqlite files.
Re: Ask HN: Why are bookmarks second class citizens in browsers?
#90I 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 creates a new folder "Saved Tabs ($time$)". Press F2 to open quick commands and write "Saved" and it will auto complete all the folder starts with "Saved"
You can create Session for currently opened tabs too.