muesliMar 3, 2022

At some point in history we collectively gave up on bookmarks and just resorted to piling up hundreds of tabs in our browser windows.

I still fancy the idea of a locally running and private search engine, that tracks everything I do on the web, so I can search my browsing history and easily rediscover things I've read months or years ago.

Show threadBob Mottram :debian:Mar 3, 2022
@fribbledom We didn't collectively give up. The small number of people who develop web browsers refused to make good UIs for bookmarks.

The bookmarks UI in firefox is awful, and that's why I don't use it often. There has been zero innovation in the UI of bookmarks since Netscape in the 1990s.
Show threadFitheach
@bob
I don't think there has ever been a good UI for browser bookmarks. The one Firefox uses now, is probably no different in design to the Netscape original. At least, that is how I remember it.
Mar 3, 2022 at 9:07amWeb