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Sometimes I think I am the only person left in the world who still uses the "Bookmarks" feature of my web browser.
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
Sometimes I think I am the only person left in the world who still uses the "Bookmarks" feature of my web browser.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI think I stopped using them when the browsers inexplicably lost their menus. I don't really understand why the menus went away from the top of web browser, since desktop screen space hasn't been an issue since the late '90s, even on laptops.
- sva_ 5y agoYou can put a bookmark folder with no title in the toolbar next to the addressbar, into which you put whatever you want. In Firefox, that works out of the box. Recently I switched to Vivaldi, and I had to use some css tweak to do it: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24849/bookmarks-in-address-bar-mod/53?=1634933136374&lang=en-US https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/24849/bookmarks-in-address-b...
- jpindar 5y agoFirefox has menus on the top, unless the user hides them.
- colejohnson66 5y agoIsn’t it hidden by default? I installed Firefox on a new machine a few months ago and I could swear I had to unhide it.
- Narishma 5y agoIt's hidden but it shows up if you press Alt.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoI've never hidden anything, yet my Firefox only has an out-of-place mobile style menu.
- skinkestek 5y agoSame reason as many other design problems: - prioritizing graphical design over usability - and prioritizing copying Chrome and Mac OS over following "local" OS guidelines
- metagame 5y agoIt's because the UX for them is awful and takes up valuable real-estate unless you put them in a folder that's nowhere near your toolbar in which case you will never see them again, especially after a Mozilla update corrupts them, leaving you without the URLs you so carefully curated and with a vague sense of regret that you trusted one of the most important things (your memory) to a company that gets the largest majority of its revenue from search engine deals and the other tenth for a half-thought out proprietary bookmarks replacement they force you to waste hard drive space with.
- elondaits 5y agoI use the bookmark bar in Chrome but edit all bookmarks to remove their title… so I have a bar full of favicons, which is enough to have one click access to most sites I use.
- nhumrich 5y agoIn Firefox, you can "keyword" your bookmarks so that typing a specific string goes to your bookmark
- Springtime 5y agoIt's definitely more convenient. I have mine set to 'hn' in Vivaldi browser to take me there.
- cmeacham98 5y agoIn firefox, you can configure the bookmarks toolbar to only show on the new tab page, which is super useful because it doesn't steal screen space on your normal tabs.
- metagame 5y agoI'm aware (that's how I have it configured), but that doesn't solve many of the problems with bookmarks.
- marcosdumay 5y ago
- gtirloni 5y agoI only really use the bookmarks in the toolbar. Anything that gets bookmarked away from that is in the "will read it eventually but not really" territory.
- sumtechguy 5y agoThink some of my bookmarks date back to mosaic. About once a year I sweep them and purge a good amount of them as I have hundreds nicely organized into categories. They 'rot' so not worth keeping. Sometimes I will point them at archive but usually I can not even remember why I bookmarked them in the first place.
- kingcharles 5y agoI was just away from the Internet for 8 years. When I checked my bookmarks 99% of them were dead links. I wonder how many from Mosaic days would still be valid?
- cmeacham98 5y agoSerious question: were you in prison? If not, how/why did you take an 8 year break?
- dylan604 5y agoMaybe they had a friend named Wilson on a long vacation on an island? Maybe they were the star in a day time soap where they were in a coma for 8 years.
- kingcharles 5y agoClose enough! County jail waiting for a trial.
- onychomys 5y agoYikes, eight years waiting for a trial? Whatever happened to the 6th amendment?
- kingcharles 5y agoThere were people with me who are about to pass into their 12th year. See here: https://www.cookcountysheriff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/LOS_10-Days_09292021.pdf https://www.cookcountysheriff.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09...
- tudorw 5y agoWho would want a lifetime searchable, contextually indexed, history of all the sites you've ever been to and perhaps a couple of sub-pages automatically scraped, all stored locally to be shared at your discretion, I'm sure Google would love to add that asap.
- 1_player 5y agoBookmarks is where interesting links go to die and resolve to dead sites when you try and visit one 5 years later.