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Don’t ever close any tabs one-by-one: bookmark and close all of them once a month when you computer starts being slow :)

tharkun__ 5y ago
I really don't get bookmarks. You'll spend and endless amount of time categorizing stuff that you then can't find again in them. Close your tabs. Type keywords you remember to find things from browsing history. It's like using Gmail search vs a folder structure and 'filing' things. Like this one dude I know who'd have organized bookmarks. He wants to watch something on Netflix. The structure goes something like this Top level->Media->Streaming Services->Paid->Netflix (also has Prime Video in there). I just type 'n' into my location bar and hit enter because my browser has learned that if something starts with n I usually go to Netflix.
- iggldiggl 5y ago
  For things you use regularly enough I agree, but history eventually expires. Also the default history UI is rubbish about surfacing connections between pages – when searching history, you can't get the browser to take you from the search result back to that actual point in your browsing history that search result is coming from, then then browser only shows you the last visit of each URL anyway even though internally it stores older visits, too, and it doesn't allow you to see connections between pages (I opened that link from this page etc.). So if you know the right keywords to directly find a page again it's fine, but if you only know that before (or after) visiting that page you visited a different page, and you can only find that different page in your history you're sort of stuck. As usual, the best extension for dealing with that problem in Firefox (Norwell History Tools) was nuked by the 57 update, and last time I checked none of the possible webextension replacements included all functionality of the original add-on – although it seems that there is some hacky way of running the original add-on even in a current Firefox, if you dare (https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/ https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/)
  - tharkun__ 5y ago
    You are definitley right that it might expire. So far never had an issue with it though. And yes this only works if you know some 'keywords' that are part of the URL for example, page title etc. It definitely doesn't really work for random personal stuff that you want to remember for a long time. I do use bookmarks for that actually. But I usually don't use the actual bookmarks, but Firefox takes the bookmarks into account when searching. It sort of "cements" it, saves it from expiring :) I never actually use the actual history UI. I literally just type into the location bar and let it find what I need. Not sure what the default settings are any longer and whether history always comes before search suggestions or if that's a setting I changed, but it very much enables this too. I'm taking this mostly in the context of frequently-ish visited stuff or stuff that's not 'too far into the history' that it's been purged (except for what I mentioned above about bookmarks I do make, but I don't organize them very well). It's definitely mostly for work stuff, though same also applies for frequently visited personal sites, like say Hackernews. Since I watch Netflix more on the TV "n<ENTER>" nowadays goes to Hackernews :)

tharkun__ 5y ago

I really don't get bookmarks. You'll spend and endless amount of time categorizing stuff that you then can't find again in them. Close your tabs. Type keywords you remember to find things from browsing history. It's like using Gmail search vs a folder structure and 'filing' things. Like this one dude I know who'd have organized bookmarks. He wants to watch something on Netflix. The structure goes something like this Top level->Media->Streaming Services->Paid->Netflix (also has Prime Video in there). I just type 'n' into my location bar and hit enter because my browser has learned that if something starts with n I usually go to Netflix.

iggldiggl 5y ago
For things you use regularly enough I agree, but history eventually expires. Also the default history UI is rubbish about surfacing connections between pages – when searching history, you can't get the browser to take you from the search result back to that actual point in your browsing history that search result is coming from, then then browser only shows you the last visit of each URL anyway even though internally it stores older visits, too, and it doesn't allow you to see connections between pages (I opened that link from this page etc.). So if you know the right keywords to directly find a page again it's fine, but if you only know that before (or after) visiting that page you visited a different page, and you can only find that different page in your history you're sort of stuck. As usual, the best extension for dealing with that problem in Firefox (Norwell History Tools) was nuked by the 57 update, and last time I checked none of the possible webextension replacements included all functionality of the original add-on – although it seems that there is some hacky way of running the original add-on even in a current Firefox, if you dare (https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/ https://github.com/xiaoxiaoflood/firefox-scripts/)
- tharkun__ 5y ago
  You are definitley right that it might expire. So far never had an issue with it though. And yes this only works if you know some 'keywords' that are part of the URL for example, page title etc. It definitely doesn't really work for random personal stuff that you want to remember for a long time. I do use bookmarks for that actually. But I usually don't use the actual bookmarks, but Firefox takes the bookmarks into account when searching. It sort of "cements" it, saves it from expiring :) I never actually use the actual history UI. I literally just type into the location bar and let it find what I need. Not sure what the default settings are any longer and whether history always comes before search suggestions or if that's a setting I changed, but it very much enables this too. I'm taking this mostly in the context of frequently-ish visited stuff or stuff that's not 'too far into the history' that it's been purged (except for what I mentioned above about bookmarks I do make, but I don't organize them very well). It's definitely mostly for work stuff, though same also applies for frequently visited personal sites, like say Hackernews. Since I watch Netflix more on the TV "n<ENTER>" nowadays goes to Hackernews :)