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Do you use bookmarks in your web browser?

mrsir2009

mrsir2009

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Do you use bookmarks in your web browser?

I certainly don't. I find it easier in Chrome to use the predictive URL feature. So I type 'm' and hit enter to bring up MacRumors, and 's' and hit enter to bring up stuff.co.nz. Much easier and better that bookmarks IMO.

How about you guys?
 
I have lots of bookmarks but I have a tendency to forget that I've made them, I always bookmark interesting and exciting things that I want to come back to soon, and forget about them for months. I do use the bookmarks bar pretty heavily, with links to the sites I go to most often.
 
I only bookmark specific things that wouldn't be available to me instantly by typing it into the URL bar. Such as a laptop I'm looking on at TigerDirect, I bookmark the webpage so I have instant access.
 
I use my bookmark bar all the time. I have 25 bookmarks, use 10-15 regularly.

Just curious, why wouldn't you use bookmarks? Why bother typing in URL (I know you only need a couple of letters and History does the rest) if you can just click on a bookmark.

In short, is there some reason NOT to use bookmarks? :confused:
 
Yes I use bookmarks in my browser, in combination with a firefox bookmark synch addon, a convenient method of keeping track of urls.
 
Shrink said:
I use my bookmark bar all the time. I have 25 bookmarks, use 10-15 regularly.

Just curious, why wouldn't you use bookmarks? Why bother typing in URL (I know you only need a couple of letters and History does the rest) if you can just click on a bookmark.

In short, is there some reason NOT to use bookmarks? :confused:
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In a lot of cases you only need to type the first letter then hit enter. And when you open a new tab the address bar is selected by default, so instead of moving your mouse to the top of the screen and finding the MacRumors bookmark, you could simply hit 'm' for MacRumors and hit enter. Another reason for not using them is that they take up space on the browser bar, meaning less space for your webpages.
 
mrsir2009 said:
In a lot of cases you only need to type the first letter then hit enter. And when you open a new tab the address bar is selected by default, so instead of moving your mouse to the top of the screen and finding the MacRumors bookmark, you could simply hit 'm' for MacRumors and hit enter. Another reason for not using them is that they take up space on the browser bar, meaning less space for your webpages.
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Thanks for responding to my question. You make good points.:)
 
I have a handful of bookmarks, grouped into categories. For example, I'll do "open in tabs" on the News category to see all my news sites at once.

Some of the people at work have hundreds of bookmarks but I can't imagine using that many; I'd probably spend longer looking for the bookmark than I would to just do a search for the site.
 
Nermal said:
I have a handful of bookmarks, grouped into categories. For example, I'll do "open in tabs" on the News category to see all my news sites at once.
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I do the "open in tabs" thing as well. The bookmarks bar is set up for different categories prepared for that. I have more bookmarks than that but I don't access them via the GUI in general. It is more enjoying the prediction improvement they give the address field.
 
I have many bookmarks (I'd say hundreds of them). Luckily, I have a good memory, so I don't need to organize them (maybe 10% are organized in about 15 folders). The rest of them are all together in one large messy pool of bookmarks. I just start typing the website I found them on, and the full adress appears, or I browse through them.

Also, for convenience, I always keep my most used bookmarks bar under the url field, organized like this:
W MR FB LM EP NYT PFF YT G GM GT FM RG

where MR stands for MacRumors, W is Wikipedia, FB is Facebook, GM is Google Maps, GT is Google Translator, YT is Youtube, and so on. This way everything fits and is just one click away... fast and convenient (I loved EyeOn's Digital Fusion's way to label buttons and apply it when I can)

Also, I hate when they decide, everytime they release a new version of a browser, to change the layout "just because". Like placing the tabs at the top, or hiding the application menu unless you press Alt...
 
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Kinda.

Chrome has this thing where it shows most visited sites each time you open a new tab, so I pretty much use that to get to where I want. I guess that's not really "bookmarks" though.

I do save links in the bookmarks to see later (like research for an upcoming assignment).
 
I have less than 10 bookmarks in chrome and I use delicious as a "read later"; it has less than 10 links as well.

Delicious is good so as setting where I want to read something. Sometimes I'm on the mac and want to read it on the iPad, or the other way around.
 
My bookmarks are organized the same way I have do so for the past decade or so, in the following categories/folders:
Artwork (this includes good wallpaper sites)
Blogs
Board and Card Games
Doctor Who
Entertainment
Fanfiction
Humor
Mac
News
Nostalgia and Classic Toys
Science and Reason
SciFi, Fantasy and Horror
Star Trek
Tools and Reference
Travel
Underground ;)

Y'know, just typing that made me realize.... I am one sick ticket. :eek:
 
I use Bookmarks for most of my favourite sites (and I love the bookmark/history search feature of the address bar in Safari); I tend to only bookmark things that I really need or like, and drag a webloc file to a folder if I want to save it but don't want it cluttering up my browser.

I use Xmarks to sync, but that doesn't work with Atomic Web on my iPhone, which is a damn shame.
 
How is clicking in the address bar, typing G, hitting enter, and selecting "Google" faster than just clicking Google in the bookmarks bar? :confused:
 
samiwas said:
How is clicking in the address bar, typing G, hitting enter, and selecting "Google" faster than just clicking Google in the bookmarks bar? :confused:
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Because you don't have to click in the address bar - everything can be done straight from the keyboard.

That said, I use a bookmark bar/menu myself.
 
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