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My browser home page is a page of bookmarks I originally made in 1998 and it's still going strong: https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/ https://david.kitchen/bookma
by buro9 4y ago
My browser home page is a page of bookmarks I originally made in 1998 and it's still going strong: https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/ https://david.kitchen/bookmarks/
I update it occasionally (last updated the HTML to XHTML 1.0 in 2000, but last edited the bookmarks a month or so ago)... but these are my frequently used bookmarks.
I also use Pinboard ( https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ ) for the long tail of bookmarks where I can search the full text of the bookmarked page. If I see something half interesting it goes to Pinboard, and later I can find something with just a remembered keyword or two.
For me, bookmarks remain my primary entry into the web, and is how I open every browser and new tab... it's my personal curation of how I perceive the web and how I launch into it.
I used to rely on the browser bookmarks back in Netscape. But it feels like it never improved and with every browser since it's just been relegated and gone downhill a fraction more. I still use the Bookmark Toolbar in Firefox, but really just for ephemeral things which I keep for a week or so before either deleting or moving to Pinboard or my home page. I consider browser bookmarks impermanent, partly because I use a mix of browsers for different purposes but partly because the discovery is terrible and it may as well be a black hole.
- CWuestefeld 4y agoI recommend the extension "Group Speed Dial" to manage this neatly. https://fastaddons.com/ https://fastaddons.com/
- alok-g 4y agoThe same story here. I had started in 1999, and have been editing the same page since then. I can also search Google, Wikipedia, etc., directly from the same home page. The only core difference that I maintain that page locally on each device and use local file sync. Firefox on Android stopped opening local HTML files, without them giving a clear reason why, and I stopped using it. [1] https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546 https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/7546