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The implementation of bookmarks in Firefox is very useful to me. No they're not organized into any sort of sensible taxonomy and I don't care. I bookmark any pa
by safety1st 4y ago
The implementation of bookmarks in Firefox is very useful to me. No they're not organized into any sort of sensible taxonomy and I don't care. I bookmark any page I think I might want to return to in the future - and when that future date arrives, I start typing words I remember from it in my address bar.
Firefox is smart enough to recommend bookmarked sites as I type based on string matches to website titles and URLs - more often than not, that's enough and I find what I'm looking for.
I think this is a better way to find stuff on the web than a taxonomy, I think Google search won and Yahoo's directory lost for similar reasons, the web is just too vast and chaotic to make imposing a taxonomy practical. A taxonomy is more useful for understanding relationships between things than for finding a particular thing. But in this scenario I don't care what relationship the page I want to view has to other pages. I just want to find it as quickly as possible.
I have mild anxiety that someone who doesn't really understand the problem space or prior work will come along one day, try to "improve" this feature, and make it useless...