firefox three is gonna be so awesomely awesome, pt. 2
Hot off the success of her recent AwesomeBar is awesome post, Deb's got even more reason to love (or anticipate) Firefox 3.
I won't spoil it with any of my own commentary this time. Just head over to dria.org and read her latest post, Firefox 3 Bookmarks (My god, it’s full of stars…).
OK. I can't not say something :-) . I'll keep it short.
It would be an understatement to say that, like Deb, I've never been a big fan of traditional browser bookmarks. To be more blunt, I've always hated them. They fail in just about every way at helping me accomplish what I want to accomplish -- quickly and easily getting back to a page I've visited before.
With the exception of a few bookmarks on my bookmarks toolbar and a couple others called up by their typed shortcut (bookmark keyword,) I just stopped using bookmarks. If it didn't fit in my toolbar or the limited space I have in the part of my brain that stores shortcut names, I just didn't save it. I found it more convenient to keep a super-long browsing history and just search through there when I wanted to return to any of the sites that didn't fit in those two very finite spaces.
That was before Firefox 3.
Thanks to all the great new features that Deb describes, now I'm bookmarking the hell out of the Web and I'm never more than a couple of clicks or keystrokes away from all the content I want to revisit.
reactions, thoughts, comments, etc.
I really feel the same. As soon as the awesomebar was introduced into the nightly's, my browsing changed. I was in the habit of just entering the whole Address of the page, every time I wanted to visit it. I always had only few bookmarks, as I felt, that they block space of my browser and tend to get so big a list, that they weren't just usable anymore. Searching through bookmarks was just a way slower experience, then just hitting some terms into google and search for it every time.
Now?
Now You just hit something in the awesomebar and kaboom, you're on the site you wanted to revisit.
Awesome (pun intended).
Tyler out!
Posted by: tylerstyle | April 23, 2008 1:59 AM
There's one thing I hate about the FF3 bookmarks. Deal-breakingly big, unless there's a way to resolve it that I missed.
I have a line of eight key bookmarks in my "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder", which I've moved to the right-hand side of the menus, above the address bar, to avoid taking another. I visit these eight sites more than any others, and I like having one-click access to them as a result from this "dead" area.
In FF3, there's a dropdown which has been bunged in this folder. Which seemingly can't be moved or removed. Consequently, those eight bookmarks don't fit.
And unless I can get the old behaviour working in FF3, I won't upgrade.
Posted by: Somebody | April 23, 2008 8:41 AM
Somebody, any and all folders, including those saved searches new to Places, can be easily deleted.
- A
Posted by: Asa Dotzler | April 23, 2008 11:22 AM