Comments on: Intelligent Bookmarking [Draft]

By: cye

cye — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:38:17 +0000

I am sorry I love Firefox, but the new smart firefox bookmark system completely sucks & it sucks so bad that I have switched back to version 2.0.0.14 with updates turned off because the new one is **** atleast to me. This new firefox bookmarking system is for disorganized people that are to slow to learn how to create a simple folder. They need to give someone a choice, like a selection to choose if you want this new system or the old one & I for one like the old one because the new one is very buggy & it takes forever to do anything & the old one is fast & it also picks the right folder & works like it should & like it use to.

I repair systems & build new systems & I am sorry my customers have even been asking me to put the old one on it because the new one keeps messing up there bookmarks & I second that & third that,they need to fix it or I guess atleast I will not be updating my security in firefox with there updates anymore because I refuse to use this new bookmarking system, plus I have thousands of bookmarks & counting & I know how to make & organize my own bookmarks & I do not need a dumb star to tell me where to put my bookmarks, I hate smart **** that they ad to our software because it always tends to be for those idiots that will not do a simple google search on how to do something because they are much to slow to just read a how to post in a forum,then us that knows how to organize our bookmark folders the right way, we then get penalized for knowing what the heck we know & these idiots change the system to a system that can’t do anything correctly besides crash & take forever to do a simple task which has made me switch back to the old one & I even backed up the extensions well like I normally do but this time was just incase they take them off line because I think they are going to keep updating with this pathetic new newbie bookmarking system that sucks-sucks sucks & sucks!!!!!!!!

By: awais

awais — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:10:51 +0000

But what is smart /dynamic bookmark folders in firefox3
how to create them?

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By: Nikitas Liogkas

Nikitas Liogkas — Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:19:22 +0000

I thought I’d post this here, as it quite relevant. I’m proud to annouce the public release of version 1.0 of the Autocomplete Manager extension! The extension provides advanced features for the address Autocomplete framework in Firefox. Features include:
- matching against page titles
- matching against bookmark addresses and bookmark names
- matching any part of the domain name
- various sorting criteria for suggested entries, including alphabetical, most-frequently-visited and most-recently-visited
- resorting the suggestion list on the fly according to different criteria
- showing/hiding page titles and visit counts
- setting the number of visible entries on the popup
- define the truncation for long addresses
- numerous fixes for Autocomplete-related bugs

The extension can also function as a rudimentary History Manager. More details, as well as the installation package, are available at http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~nikitas/acmanager

Please let me know of any suggestions/bugs.

Thank you!

nikitas

By: fermuar

fermuar — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:44:16 +0000

A solution to cross-browser bookmarks I have found is to make a local HTML file and use it as your Home Page. I have done this with the most popular bookmarks I use. They always show up no matter which browser I use. Plus it is easy to see them as they are all in a few simple lists on screen. I thought of writing some JavaScript to make it easy to add and subtract the bookmarks, but never got round to it.

By: Jrm

Jrm — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:21:31 +0000

By: ashwin

ashwin — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 13:07:24 +0000

Hi,

i do understand that bookmarking within browser is problematic to use, how about online bookmarking services? (example del.icio.us).

By: Tdot

Tdot — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:11:35 +0000

I agree with the problems of pure bookmarks saving. For that reason I started emulating tagging systems in Mozilla long before I saw del.icio.us for the first time — see http://tdot.blog-city.com/evol.....arking.htm.
I’m not so convinced that “intelligent” filtering will solve so many problems without generating confusion. For example, have you tried tags ordered by frequency in the del.icio.us post interface? I was very excited when I discovered this option but in reality it is only useful for the very frequent tags. The rest is just a mess and it is impossible to find any tag beyond the most frequent tags quickly because they look like in random order.

By: Chris Hester

Chris Hester — Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:43:49 +0000

When you say “auto-complete” don’t you really mean “keywords”?

I agree bookmarks suck. However, Opera have implemented some cool ideas that help. Firstly, you can use a search box and type in the first few letters of the title and it will show only the related results. As you type more, fewer bookmarks are listed to match. I just tested it and it even works for words not in the title, but in the URL! Hence typing “gandalf” finds a bookmark about Firefox 2. It’s also very quick.

Peaks wrote: we would save time and have smoother browsing if we could add keywords to bookmark folders

This can be done in Opera.

The browser also has something I haven’t tried, where it can go straight to a site as soon as a match is found when typing a keyword in. Normally you have to type in the whole keyword. (But in the case of Zeldman.com, that’s just “z” for me. )

One idea I have also seen is thumbnails of bookmarks. I think most browsers will have these one day as some already do and it looks cool. They will definitely help in quickly identifying sites, but they don’t solve the problem of long lists of bookmarks. (In fact, they would make it worse, as the list would appear longer to make room for the images!)

Interesting article anyway. I hope a solution is found to this problem.