Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?

Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by ikawe on Friday April 07, 2017 @07:56PM (#14064384)

I probably have 500 bookmarks. I never click on them though.

Instead I (ab)use bookmarks as a way to increase the weight of URLs in chrome's navigation bar autocomplete/suggestion algorithm.

e.g. If you find that you're going to a site's homepage and clicking three times, instead once you get to the actual page you want, bookmark it. You can even give it a more memorable name, like "standup hangout" and then watch it autocomplete from the address bar next time you start to type the URL.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by mintplant on Saturday April 08, 2017 @12:54AM (#14065376)

I do the same. Tangentially, I find Firefox's address bar autocomplete to be far superior to Chrome's (better partial/fuzzy matching and combination matches across URL and page titles). A bit ironic given one is the product of a search company.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by guftagu on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:28AM (#14065478)

It's not ironic. Chrome's autocomplete is designed to take you to Google search for most cases.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by derimagia on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:04AM (#14065562)

Chrome has a flag in chrome:\\flags to enable partial matches.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by d0vs on Saturday April 08, 2017 @03:37AM (#14065812)

What's it called exactly? I can't find it.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by derimagia on Saturday April 08, 2017 @04:06AM (#14065898)

Sorry I was thinking of autofill suggestions:

"Substring matching for Autofill suggestions" chrome://flags/#enable-suggestions-with-substring-match

For the address bar it already does substring for me pretty well so I can't comment on that, sorry about that.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by manishyt on Saturday April 08, 2017 @12:17AM (#14065282)

You could use Fauxbar [1] instead of that. It indexes the history and suggests the most frequently used links.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fauxbar/hibkhcnpka...

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by kakarot on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:48PM (#14065189)

That's a very interesting use case! Have you tried using keyword bookmarks? If you find yourself visiting a URL often, you could make it a keyword bookmark with an optional %s search parameter, accessible from the address bar. Useful for websites with generated urls, like reddit or 4chan.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by abhinickz on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:42AM (#14076927)

You can see this on chrome with this URL: chrome://predictors/

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by kakarot on Monday April 10, 2017 @05:11AM (#14077022)

That's pretty cool, do you know if a similarly accessible list exists in Firefox?

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by abhinickz on Monday April 10, 2017 @09:17AM (#14078213)

No, I think If similar list would exist that will be accessible from about:about in Firefox Which I can see that it doesn't.

Like in chrome chrome://about/ list every chrome secure pages.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by jaysoncena on Saturday April 08, 2017 @01:00AM (#14065391)

I'm also doing the same thing. I add #hashtag to add keywords that are not on the title of the bookmark.

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Re:Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks? by dorianm on Friday April 07, 2017 @09:19PM (#14064700)

Same here, sometimes I even put information un the url parameters or the the anchor as labels/titles for the bookmark

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