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@floppy@fosstodon.orgConfession: I had/have the bad habit of abusing browser tabs as bookmarks. Let's say recently I had three-digit number of tabs. It's embarassing. "Will read later", yeah.
Today Firefox crashed. For some reason half the tabs are gone. Ouch.
I was somehow able to salvage tab-related information from some serialised data from some extension stored somewhere. Yeah, it's weird.
That data got fed into FreshRSS as a feed (that doesn't change). Let's see how well that works.
Firefox is so fast now.
@floppy Why do people portray it as a bad habit though? It's the least bad solution for a real missing feature of browsers.
@dcz Excellent point! Totally agree.
I suppose extended bookmarking is a feature "not enough" people are interested in (or request for). In other words, maybe many people use the browser just casually, but not as information storage?
But then again better bookmark support would just be the logical next step and without proper tools there cannot be proper use.
Or maybe such features are requested in such a format (e.g. "social bookmarking") that requests are redirected to external services.
@floppy People do commonly use browsers for information storage, and browser makers are recgnizing this by universally providing tab interfaces. But they optimize it for short-term (although tab persistence is common on phones I think), while neglecting to provide a good interface for mid- and long-term memory.
@floppy Yes, I feel you. I bookmarked all my tabs recently. This is from my phone ... I have 200-300 "bookmark all tabs" dump folders. I have started doing some programmatic analysis on them, but I'm not sure it's worth it even.