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I never really used browser bookmarks until I discovered Firefox's bookmark keyword feature [1]. It basically eliminates the search step. For example, I set "pr" to the GitHub pull request page. Just press Alt + D to focus the address bar, type the keyword, and hit Enter.

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how...

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I configured Firefox to only ever auto-complete to bookmarks or open tabs, never some random thing from my browser history. That also makes it very easy to find specific pages and I do not have to memorize any tags.

I don't know why nobody uses that feature. I have quite a few. For example, Wikipedia (w), Wiktionary (wt), Go docs (go), ...

Saves me a middleman request.

> Saves me a middleman request.

Saving the earth one request (less) at a time!

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