Yes state as in where you are in a page isn't stored in the bookmark. I get that. I've tried loads of tab extensions. That one was broken for me when I tried it. I still think this is window manager / desktop manager territory, grouping: tasks, pages, apps, sessions.
Perhaps listening to a passage of text and typing some notes and reading a web page belong to a given task, and I might want to stash that away and pick it up later. Although I'm probably kidding myself thinking I can multi-task, and manage multiple tasks, sessions. Freezing one or two though might be useful.
I'm on Debian Nightly 31. And I can't even find the managing session stuff in the menus. I'm sure I used to be able to save a group of tabs.
If bookmark management was better in the browsers I'm sure people would use them far more.
Re:Burying the URL
by dredmorbius on Saturday May 03, 2014 @01:22AM
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Bookmarks as is are a complete nightmare, agreed.
You'd almost think the browser developers want you to save all state to their proprietary Web-based silos or something.
A bookmark doesn't retain where you are on a page. Only the page's location.
Bookmarks also don't relate to your current browser session. I usually organize mine by topic. For current task work what I want is a stack or other less-organized list that I can skip back and forth on.
Firefox's session restore was configurable. I'm a few revs back on Debian (24.4.0), so I'm not sure what all's changed recently.