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I'm surprised people associate stars with bookmarks (people still bookmark websites?) rather than a seal of approval.

Both Chrome and Firefox use a star icon as a shortcut to bookmark a page. I find it more surprising that you don't think people still bookmark websites. What do you use to remember links to pages you might want to visit again in the future?

You can often type some text that you remember from the URL or title in the URL bar and browsers will search the history and present you a set of pages you visited including the one you want.

Effectively it's like bookmarking everything and then using the keyboard to navigate among the bookmarks.

Normal bookmarks are still necessary if you need to record a set of multiple pages that meet some criteria.

>You can often type some text that you remember from the URL or title in the URL bar and browsers will search the history and present you a set of pages you visited including the one you want.

This fails to work for those of us who regularly clear browser history (e.g on shutdown), or bookmark articles from blog sites, or maybe the random URL of a site we've never visited that we're saving for later.

> people still bookmark websites?

What? Who _doesn't_ bookmark websites?

I used to, but the increasing amount of 404ing in my bookmark collection led me to stop trusting that I could get back to something with it. I think I'd prefer a "whole page snapshot" rather than a bookmark.

To prevent 404'ing an Archive service can be used. But I feel that is a little abusive to archive the page then bookmark the archive, so I take whole page screenshots. :)

In Firefox: Shift+F2 --> 'screenshot --fullpage'

I use evernote's web clipper for that purpose, works pretty well for what I need it to do.

Any page I want to bookmark, I commit to the Internet Archive, and then bookmark that page.

I only bookmark a page when I want to add extra tags to find it by that don't appear in its URL or title. Otherwise, Firefox's "awesomebar" does an excellent job of finding what I want out of my history.

The shitload of people typing in "facebook" in the Google search bar m(

I bookmark all of my work documentation from different sites. Saves me if I ever clear out my browser history, I'm not struggling to find links again

I have over 5K bookmarks, I mean I might be an exception but if a site has some interesting content/ideas I will bookmark it to its appropriate category folder.

There is no other good way to bookmark a tweet in the mobile app.

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