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Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

if i bookmark something i will never look at it again

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I only find my saved bookmarks randomly by typing something in the address bar and the bookmark popping up as the first result.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't that the best way, though? I'm searching for something, but now I don't need to do a web search because I've saved the link to it already. And I didn't have to dig through a long list to find it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

if only there was a fuzzy content search included. usually i don't remember the page, or the topic, but just like... a quote.

that's actually a good use for this local ai stuff, take the contents of pages i bookmark and auto-tag it based on that. for that matter, archive the contents as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

nb will do that for you whenever you create a bookmark with it.

nb embeds the page content in the bookmark, making it available for full text search with nb search and locally-served, distraction-free reading and browsing with nb browse. When Pandoc is installed, the HTML page content is converted to Markdown. When readability-cli is installed, markup is cleaned up to focus on content. When Chromium or Chrome is installed, JavaScript-dependent pages are rendered and the resulting markup is saved.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

that is... pretty neat. is there some way to get it to interop with a browser's bookmarks?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

You mean like syncing the two? Not that I know of. The most you can do is open nb bookmarks in the browser. If you know how to do any shell scripting, there's probably a way to export your browser bookmarks and then import them into nb. I'll have to research this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Oh yeah, when it comes to bookmarks I gave up trying to organize them into folders a long time ago, and I now try to add a few keywords/tags to the description to hopefully get the bookmark when I type in the address bar now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

You are entitled to this but I don’t understand why it makes a difference if the icon is above or below the url here.

If you have bookmarks hidden, thats an argument for a pretty bookmark manager.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

i use bookmarks for sites i access frequently, like a speed dial thing. i've set up my bookmarks toolbar to be in-line with the address bar and icon-only, so that it blends in with the rest of the interface. if i'm just going to go back to something one time i leave a tab open until i get time.