The fact that mozilla actively fights for internet freedom and user privacy is just the delicious icing on a technically solid browser cake.
The best bookmarking in-browser. I am really convinced it's better than most others out there - even those dedicated "bookmarking" services e.g. Delicious, Pinboard(which is a disappointment other than when I look at my li'l bookmarks in a browser window in its webapp) etc - with its sync.
I am planning to plug my own server to Firefox sync service so that I can have it wherever I want. Great if I could just stumble upon sth good ready to deploy.
If you click the star on a website and you want your bookmark to go in the bookmarks menu, you need to press the star TWICE, then choose "Bookmarks Menu" from a dropdown, and then click ok. That is 4 click too much. And where it puts it after clicking the star once is useless.
Then, the bookmark menu itself. So many useless things in there first before your actual bookmarks start.
I often bookmark pages before I read them, and use the Unsorted Bookmarks folder as a kind of reading list and sorting area. After I've read a web page, I will either delete the bookmark (if the page turns out to be useless) or move it to its final location (if I want to reference it again). I also often change the title to be more descriptive, remove cruft from the URL, etc. while doing so.
For my workflow, a bookmarking system that automatically placed my bookmarks inside the Bookmarks Menu would be useless. It would be even worse if it tried to "guess" the folder where I wanted my bookmarks to be.
If a page doesn't have a title I'll add a couple tags, and likewise if it ever takes too long to find a particular bookmark. But 99% of the time I don't even need to think about those things.
In Opera you can right click a link and then select the exact place in the bookmark heirarchy to place it in. In Firefox you have to first bookmark the link, then go to the atrocious bookmark manager and move the bookmark where you want it to go.
Opera's bookmark manager is also just much nicer, more powerful, and more intuitive than Firefox's.
Unfortunately, Opera is closed-source software, and has been moving in anti-privacy directions I don't like, so I still use Firefox. But in many ways, Opera is a far superior browser.
In Firefox you can click the star in the URL bar to set a bookbar. When you click the star for a second time immediately, you can select where in the bookmark hierarchy it should go without opening the bookmark manager at all.
You can also just drag&drop the tab title to the right location in the bookmarks toolbar and it will create a bookmark there.
Or are you talking about in which order a bookmark is placed inside a folder, accessed from the first bookmark setup window? I am quite sure there is a add-on that do exactly this.
I like Firefox's tagged bookmarks. I love how it's not slow anymore, and how I can browse by tag in the main bookmarks window I get through Ctrl+Shift+O.
But I'm using the MicroFox theme, which pretty much completely changes how Firefox looks. Nobody that I know of in the browser world does themes like Mozilla does for Firefox. Chrome doesn't even come close, and I don't remember Opera offering much beyond palette swaps, either. I have MicroFox and Status-4-Evar and a number of other Add-Ons that combine to give me the browser I want. I can do that with Firefox and with no other browser I know of.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/microfox-for-...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/status-4-evar...
I do like chrome's dev tools better imo, so I run both. Chrome for active dev and FF for browsing
I've not used bookmarks for years, literally. I even tried to use GReader, Delicious and Kippt but I can not wrap my head around bookmarks. Instead, my "bookmarks" are my history, my most frequently visited websites and the few pinned tabs I keep open on all my browsers through syncing. I am alone in this?
Keeping them all in my browser session for six months before I put it to good use is just unnecessary, so I bookmark it and find it later when I need it.
I do. Then I delete them again three years later when I bother to check my old bookmarks.
Like Cthulhu_, I've been bookmarking for years till my bookmarks were filled and literally unusable; then I moved to Google Reader and carefully chosen RSS Feeds, which slowly became a bloated mess (more than 3,000 favorites there); then to Kippt, and bis repetita.
In the end, I've come to the conclusion that keeping bookmarks for "interesting stuff" isn't so interesting (no pun intended.) If it's a great thing and I must keep it in mind, it'll surely come back to the surface somehow.
I must add that I have an extremely complex memory: it is very small and forgetful when it comes to actual stuff I have to remember (like my friends's names or university lessons), and abnormally large when it comes to seemingly insignificant stuff (like ZURB's Foundation framework which is competing with Twitter's Boostrap). I'll usually remember all the URLs I've typed. I'm a strange weirdo.
Finally, I realize now that I'm quite the exception here in terms of bookmarks, but seeing the rise and fall of Delicious, as well as Xmarks's (one of the insignificant things I remember, even though I've never used the service or heard of it before it closed down) I thought it was more common.
And sooner or later the guy shows up who hasn't closed his browser window or any tab in it since 2003, and now has essentially the entire Wayback Machine in memory.
Is this a record?