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Bookmark managers being a separate application is a brilliant idea. Like password managers, they can be full blown standalone applications, with lots of functio
by WhyNotHugo 8mo ago
Bookmark managers being a separate application is a brilliant idea. Like password managers, they can be full blown standalone applications, with lots of functionality and variability.
I wish Firefox and others had good IPC for external applications to function as bookmark manager, password manager, etc. Browsers can then focus on being browsers, and we have have a variety of external bookmark managers exploring different design ideas, or focusing on different workflows.
- ahmed_sulajman 8mo agoFor sure! I briefly looked into integrating more with browsers, for example, to better what's currently opened in different windows. But so far the only way I found was to rely heavily on macOS accessibility API to get some bi-directional data flow between the browser and the external app. Or alternatively try to do this kind of integration via a browser extension. I know Raycast is doing something similar with their browser extension, when the extension acts as a proxy between the app and the browser to deliver different context to the app
- pbalau 8mo agoI am planning to use the extension route to... bypass the imgur UK block. Just need to use imgur for more than once in a while.
- tmpfs 8mo agoYou should look at the native messaging API, it does what you need for bi-ditectional communication between extension and local app. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Native_messaging https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
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