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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by _wmd on Saturday July 22, 2017 @02:07AM (#14825676)
Bookmarking always struck me as a 90s solution to just having fulltext search and analytics over your browser history, there have been a few attempts at browsers that addressed this head-on, but they've all died off over time

IMO just one good new tab UI over a user's history/local cache could make a sizeable dent in Google's ad revenue

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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by bigbugbag on Saturday July 22, 2017 @06:55AM (#14826511)
Opera with its unique cache offered the option to have full text search in history and it was great. Then quarterly profit became a priority for the board and they dropped their browser to become a google chrome advanced skin.
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Re:The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs by JetSpiegel on Saturday July 22, 2017 @08:12AM (#14826794)
It's not like you have to reinvent the wheel even, just use Xapian like notmuch to do the grunt work of full-text indexing.
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