Exactly! I use tabs for that very thing. I have over four hundred tabs open in multiple windows, and counting!
(Please send help.)
Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.
While I agree with you, since you added "in Firefox", actually Firefox lets me do more with my bookmarks than Chrome.
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/news/mozilla-acquires-po...
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
So, does anyone know of any solution like this, but running locally instead? I tried Recoll, and both the FF extension and the query engine were... unpolished, to say the least...
EDIT: mentioned in another comment Web Clipper + Joplin looks really nice!
Wallabag costs money but you can self host it. I heard it's good!
https://github.com/rhizome-conifer/conifer
The intent is a webrecorder for the internet.
It records all js libraries, loads videos, and all else.
Once stored, you can review a snapshot at that point in time.
They have a service option, webrecorder.io, but this one let's you store directly locally.
It's run by idlewords here on HN, who also gives great talks and writes on https://idlewords.com/
Do you just have a google container, or have you managed to make it so that gmail can only be opened in a "personal" and "work" context and bookmarks open it in the right tab? That's been my big frustration with using container tabs to seperate purposes/accounts like this.
@.*\.google\.com.*username@gmail\.com.*$
A bookmark link for Gmail that works with that regex would be:
https://mail google.com/u/[email protected]
Edit: What? Of fuck off HN, how the fuck are you supposed to post unformatted text? Ok, got it. I'm not translating the horrible YouTube url though.
I still do but I absolutely agree with you. I'm still looking for a replacement though.
Full list:
- Joplin web clipper
- BitWarden
- Firefox containers
- Containerise (choose tab container based on domain name or url regex)
- Cookie autodelete (in case I ever accidentally log into something in the wrong container, this cleans it up)
I also modify the search bar so it only suggests locations from my bookmarks, and I use separate bookmarks for each account, eg:
- gmail [[email protected]]
- gmail [[email protected]]
- aws console [prod@work]
- aws console [me@personal]
- github [work]
- github [personal]
I type "gmail work", hit return and Firefox opens it in the correct container tab, already logged in. (Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists)
Make Google results suck less with Greasemonkey and a script that blocks junk domains (I maintain my own block list). And I have a junk Google account just for random searches etc, and I leave that logged into the "default" container tab, so I'm not plagued by Google cookie / T&C pop-ups.
Other Greasemonkey scripts, eg: make Reddit suck less by using old.reddit.com.
I also log into Firefox and sync this stuff across all of my browsers. Unfortunately the setting per addon do not sync so I always export text configs to a Syncthing directory any time I make a change (eg: update containerise rules, blocklists, cookie autodelete settings)