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I wish they had worked on better bookmarks instead of on a flashy appearance.

I couldn't agree more. Bookmarks are simply an after thought today, like RSS. I'm looking for a browser with decent bookmark management. Even just a notes field and a saved snapshot feature would do me. Currently I'm using Zotero for this, but it's a little OTT as a bookmark manager.

I use Pinboard.in, and I am stuck with Iridium, a good but Chromium-based browser that is rarely updated (a year ago, for OSX) because Chrome does bookmarks decently, unlike Firefox, at least in my opinion.

P.S. Zotero feels like overkill to me.

What does does Chrome do better? For example, Chrome lacks the ability to tag bookmarks.

I don’t tag my bookmarks. But playing around with them, renaming them, creating folders, moving them around etc is simple with Chrome/Chromium, and a pain in the neck with all the other browsers I tried.

Chrome is worse than Firefox, literally a name and URL for a link and name for folder. At least with Firefox you can tag bookmarks and use keywords.

I'm curious how Firefox comes off worse in your view, chrome seems to provide basic usage which Firefox also provides.

EDIT: just saw your other reply about it. Definitely can't agree, there's nothing fiddly with the way Firefox allows you to move, create, rename, delete, or update links and folders. Same functionality as chrome as far as I can tell.

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