The back-stack (and forward-stack), or the "trajectory" as you aptly put it Partially-filled form fields (I try to avoid this, but it happens sometimes anyway) Also the addons: flashblock, noscript and memoryfox must have played a part in the stability too. So it could be related to an OS specific build. Linux is my "serious" box, so as a byproduct I waste less time on the net when I am on it (.in I was quite happy with 3.7 not so much with 4.* 8 and above have been nice to me, but all these were on a very stable XP installation. Things might have changed though, I havent checked back since the time i elliminated all X based browsers from my linux box except dillo. Another reluctant admission, FF has been stabler on windows than on linux, so much so that I have a dedicated windows laptop just for browsing. I would frequently let the laptop hibernate when not in active use.įorgot to mention I use noscript and flashblock, which helped elliminate a lot of the crashes and other resource consumption badness. I have been pleasantly It was indeed months, though I must have had to restart a couple of times, but no more. Although I have to admit I was very reluctant to upgrade from FF3.5 thinking the new versions wont tolerate such tab abuse. FF gets a lot of unwarranted flak, but mostly, I think from users whose experience have been formed on really old FF versions.
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I dont have to pay for xmarks, but I still do anyway.Īnd a heartfelt thanks to FF developers for taking care of the memory footprint and the leaks.
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Yet another is Xmarks, with it I have access to the tabs and bookmarks from any location. Another helpful add-on is one that allows searching for text in open (but possibly unloaded) tabs. Well, FF only does load on demand, not the unload part, the latter helps especially on low memory m/c. The load/unload on demand been moved into the browser, so its not so essential to have it as an add-on anymore. So its a combination of an in-your-face-reminder and a semantic call-cc function that I can resume when I want.and I just love it. The crucial capability that open tabs have but bookmarks dont, is that it stores the context (in particular the trajectory that I took to that page) as well as the link. Things that have been on the tab for long and have been revisited several times, I usually bookmark permanently. I have been asked to defend my habit many times, so here it is: I use open tabs as a volatile bookmark. Am somewhat relieved/piqued to see that this behavior is not unique. FF does fine even on my 512MB Pentium-M laptop, Chrome for instance will make such a box unusable. I have several hundreds of them open for months on end.įor this rather unusual browsing habit, no other browser other than FF works for me. I am one of the worst offenders of the "keep the tabs open variety". Here's the question: Does your product facilitate saving and organizing methods that allow the user to retrieve any page within 5 seconds, 5 years later? Because I do occasionally revisit pages after a decade or even more, after I've accumulated thousands of other bookmarks ranging from "read this afternoon" to "potentially useful to a future project". What if I have 10,000 bookmarks? Is your idea highly scalable (pardon the buzzword), or is it optimized for ~200 bookmarks?Īll of these nitpicks stem from the fact that a bookmark manager should not only help you save pages for later, but also help you manage the pages that you've saved. Can you tell one NYT article from another from 120px thumbnails of each page? (Hopefully, those buttons in the top right are for toggling between icon and list view.)Ĥ. Relying on screenshots and/or favicons instead of page titles to represent each bookmark would quickly get confusing when you bookmark multiple pages from the same website. But they have the annoying limitation of being one-to-many.ģ. Don't get me wrong, folders are cool, too. The concept of piles seems to be a reversion to folders. Can I toss the same bookmark in more than one pile at the same time? The neat thing about tagging is that tags are many-to-many. There's a "pile" for "school work", but what about having sub-piles for each course that I'm taking? I don't want bookmarks for my CS course getting mixed up with bookmarks for my political science course.Ģ. I wonder how they plan to address these issues:ġ. Very interesting take on redesigning Bookmarks.īut the mockup they produced at the end seems to have several issues, at least when it comes to compatibility with my bookmarking habits.