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Favicons: This is by far my favorite feature of modern browsers, and I in no way apologize for loving them. They make bookmarks actually useful for sites you

Favicons: This is by far my favorite feature of modern browsers, and I in no way apologize for loving them. They make bookmarks actually useful for sites you visit regularly. Take a look at my bookmark bar: [1] The favicons allow me to fit all of the links I visit regularly in one easily accessible, compact place. I don't care if they look "tacky", they're incredibly useful. [1]http://min.us/l5aGM http://min.us/l5aGM

mitchty 15y ago
Damn dude, I do the same thing, just not as.... extreme. Been using FF4 a bit lately, once Firefox gets tab/process separation I think I'm going to be on my way back there. I miss noscript like nothing else. Here's mine, I've been having a fun time trying to figure out half of your bookmark bar, damn man. http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  From the left: Gmail Google Torrent search Google Reader Hotmail (requires me to log in every 30 days to keep forwarding to gmail) Facebook Canucks Forum UVic website Popurls StumbleUpon Reddit Hacker News Slashdot H-Online/Security Intern0t Stack Overflow programmers.stackexchange Cracked College Humor (never visit, since removed) xkcd Cyanide & Happiness Penny Arcade Dilbert SMBC ZDNet Ars Wired Engadget TechCrunch Al Jazeera English The Onion CBC /b/ wikipedia watchlist Wolfram Alpha Grooveshark Pitchfork SurfTheChannel Sidereel Youtube TPB Torrent Butler ---------------- I have a bunch of individual pages favorited in a number of areas, but those are the ones I visit frequently. Edit: It's times like these I wish HN used Markdown, so I could compact this into a table. Sorry for taking up so much room.
planb 15y ago
My bookmarks bar looks quite similar. In fact, this is the main reason I'm using Chrome instead of Safari, though I really like the new features in Lion and therefore think about a new way to organize my bookmarks.
jmreid 15y ago
Personal taste, I guess. I find your browser setup very distracting.
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  I imagine it would be distracting to someone who doesn't use it daily. For me, I know where everything is and what it does. It's optimized for efficiency, not cleanliness. Bookmark buttons are grouped by subject (mail, links, security & coding, humour, news, info, music, tv & video) and I know what each favicon is for. It saves me having to type the first few letters of a given URL, which works for me.
starwed 15y ago
I find it weird to even think of a bookmark bar anymore. At least in FF, the URL bar does such a good job searching history/bookmarks that I have no use for it, and I thought chrome was now in a similar position?
- redthrowaway 15y ago
  I find Chrome's omnibox better than the address bar in FF, as it autocompletes. I suppose I could press cmd-L to jump to the box and type a few letters, but the web is so optimized for the mouse that I usually have my finger on the trackpad anyway.
  - sp332 15y ago
    Firefox has been experimenting with autocompletion, it might make it into a future version. https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2010/10/27/navigate-the-web-faster-with-awesome-bar-word-completion/ https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2010/10/27/navigate-the-w... You can install the first-party addon without even restarting your browser. There are other experiments in the "Lab Kit" https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/11/its-time-to-get-your-lab-kit/ https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/11/its-time-to-get-your-la...
- Newky 15y ago
  My only usage for a bookmark bar is for javascript bookmarks such as readability and HackemUp
  - personalcompute 15y ago
    These are 'bookmarklets' and can be accessed through the normal bookmarks window (or bookmarks pane) as well.

mitchty 15y ago

Damn dude, I do the same thing, just not as.... extreme. Been using FF4 a bit lately, once Firefox gets tab/process separation I think I'm going to be on my way back there. I miss noscript like nothing else. Here's mine, I've been having a fun time trying to figure out half of your bookmark bar, damn man. http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png http://i.imgur.com/mLKd5.png

redthrowaway 15y ago
From the left: Gmail Google Torrent search Google Reader Hotmail (requires me to log in every 30 days to keep forwarding to gmail) Facebook Canucks Forum UVic website Popurls StumbleUpon Reddit Hacker News Slashdot H-Online/Security Intern0t Stack Overflow programmers.stackexchange Cracked College Humor (never visit, since removed) xkcd Cyanide & Happiness Penny Arcade Dilbert SMBC ZDNet Ars Wired Engadget TechCrunch Al Jazeera English The Onion CBC /b/ wikipedia watchlist Wolfram Alpha Grooveshark Pitchfork SurfTheChannel Sidereel Youtube TPB Torrent Butler ---------------- I have a bunch of individual pages favorited in a number of areas, but those are the ones I visit frequently. Edit: It's times like these I wish HN used Markdown, so I could compact this into a table. Sorry for taking up so much room.

planb 15y ago

My bookmarks bar looks quite similar. In fact, this is the main reason I'm using Chrome instead of Safari, though I really like the new features in Lion and therefore think about a new way to organize my bookmarks.

jmreid 15y ago

Personal taste, I guess. I find your browser setup very distracting.

redthrowaway 15y ago
I imagine it would be distracting to someone who doesn't use it daily. For me, I know where everything is and what it does. It's optimized for efficiency, not cleanliness. Bookmark buttons are grouped by subject (mail, links, security & coding, humour, news, info, music, tv & video) and I know what each favicon is for. It saves me having to type the first few letters of a given URL, which works for me.

starwed 15y ago

I find it weird to even think of a bookmark bar anymore. At least in FF, the URL bar does such a good job searching history/bookmarks that I have no use for it, and I thought chrome was now in a similar position?

redthrowaway 15y ago
I find Chrome's omnibox better than the address bar in FF, as it autocompletes. I suppose I could press cmd-L to jump to the box and type a few letters, but the web is so optimized for the mouse that I usually have my finger on the trackpad anyway.
- sp332 15y ago
  Firefox has been experimenting with autocompletion, it might make it into a future version. https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2010/10/27/navigate-the-web-faster-with-awesome-bar-word-completion/ https://mozillalabs.com/prospector/2010/10/27/navigate-the-w... You can install the first-party addon without even restarting your browser. There are other experiments in the "Lab Kit" https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/11/its-time-to-get-your-lab-kit/ https://mozillalabs.com/blog/2010/11/its-time-to-get-your-la...
Newky 15y ago
My only usage for a bookmark bar is for javascript bookmarks such as readability and HackemUp
- personalcompute 15y ago
  These are 'bookmarklets' and can be accessed through the normal bookmarks window (or bookmarks pane) as well.