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That's because the bookmarkers sucks. They do not adapt to what you are doing, you need to do a lot of setup and organize a lot to be able to use it well. It should be more organic, grow with the use you make. I still believe that anyone who makes a better bookmark will dominate more than just the browser war.

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Bookmarking always struck me as a 90s solution to just having fulltext search and analytics over your browser history, there have been a few attempts at browsers that addressed this head-on, but they've all died off over time

IMO just one good new tab UI over a user's history/local cache could make a sizeable dent in Google's ad revenue

Opera with its unique cache offered the option to have full text search in history and it was great. Then quarterly profit became a priority for the board and they dropped their browser to become a google chrome advanced skin.

It's not like you have to reinvent the wheel even, just use Xapian like notmuch to do the grunt work of full-text indexing.

How do you organise tabs then? I've god knows how many bookmarks and I've been blindly Ctrl-D-ing since time immemorial, only tagging very distinct stuff and modifying titles if too stupid. When I need to get at sth. bookmarked, typing stuff into the url field in firefox just works.

Tree Tab Style.

Try it, then read the original post and the comments again. :)

I think this is the missing piece on all this discussion.

I do know those extensions, but still prefer bookmarks. I just tag stuff unread and go on.

then link rot and unread stays unread forever.

Well. I've made a little extension that lists unread links. For linkrot, yes that's an issue I plan to solve, and what I will do is I'll either find or write a program that saves my bookmarks as websaves.

Have you tried pocket? I used to keep a load of bookmarks but the problem was that after a while many of the source urls would die off. So something like pocket is very handy as it takes a copy of the page you're interested in.

Why pocket when we have opensource wallabag that you can either host yourself[1] or use as a service[2] ?

IIRC pocket has had some serious vulnerabilites exposed.

[1]: https://wallabag.org/en [2]: https://wallabag.it/en

Pocket might get better integration since it was recently acquired by Mozilla. Fingers crossed...

Pocket had a great integration with Firefox when it was an extension. Then they decided to integrate it into the browser and ironically it end up being a piece of shit that was not more functional than a bookmarklet. Not only that but they also removed the original extension from add-ons site so you have had to use the half assed built-in implementation.

I'd try a thing for tabs that works like cmd-tab / alt-tab works for apps.

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