Solved Friday poll: bookmarks time!

Stardust

@Folgore101 said in Friday poll: bookmarks time!:

Which is what you do through the popup that opens, you choose the folder you are interested in and confirm with the "Done" button.

"Done" button acts like close button because bookmark is already saved. I don't like the fact that bookmark is saved automatically.

@Pathduck said in Friday poll: bookmarks time!:

If I'm really lazy and use the mouse, I drag+drop from the url field into the panel folder.

drag+drop tab to the bookmarks menu is my favorite way to add bookmarks in Firefox.

The bookmarks button dialog is a usability mess so I don't use it.

Totally agree with this

Pathduck

@Stardust said in Friday poll: bookmarks time!:

I don't like the fact that bookmark is saved automatically.

Agreed, I didn't like when they changed this. But, if I ever "accidentally" press Ctrl+D (it happens) and the dialog pops up, I can use Shift+Tab to focus the Remove button and it's gone. I would've preferred to just close it with Esc though.

drag+drop tab to the bookmarks menu is my favorite way to add bookmarks in Firefox.

I believe you mean the Bookmarks Toolbar (or the Sidebar), as you can't drag+drop to the Bookmarks Menu.

Stupidly, Firefox does not have an "Add active tab" option in the menu or as a context menu, so you're forced to use drag+drop which is terrible for keyboard accessibility.

And Firefox's Add Bookmark button dialog is just as basic as Vivaldi's. Even worse, it disappears after a while, forcing you to open it again to remove an accidentally added bookmark.

Firefox's insistence on having each folder by default sorted manually (i.e. randomly) and no way of even making it remember you want it sorted alphabetically is just brain-dead.

I'm sure there are addons that fix some of these bookmarking stupidities in Firefox. I remember when I used Firefox I needed an auto-sort addon to have my bookmarks properly sorted:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-sort-bookmarks/

These days of course, I don't use Firefox so I only have it installed with a clean profile for testing, so there might be obscure about:config settings I don't know about...

Stardust

@Pathduck said in Friday poll: bookmarks time!:

I believe you mean the Bookmarks Toolbar (or the Sidebar), as you can't drag+drop to the Bookmarks Menu.

You can! It's a very old feature! Just grab a tab and drag it over the Bookmarks Menu!

Stupidly, Firefox does not have an "Add active tab" option in the menu or as a context menu, so you're forced to use drag+drop which is terrible for keyboard accessibility.

Yea

And Firefox's Add Bookmark button dialog is just as basic as Vivaldi's. Even worse, it disappears after a while, forcing you to open it again to remove an accidentally added bookmark.

Agree

Pathduck

@Stardust said in Friday poll: bookmarks time!:

You can! It's a very old feature! Just grab a tab and drag it over the Bookmarks Menu!

Not sure we're talking about the same thing here?

This is what I call FF's Bookmarks Menu:

Or possibly this which is not the same thing:

I can't see any way of dragging a tab into either of these.

While this is the Bookmarks Toolbar you can drag tabs to:

Stardust

@Pathduck said in Friday poll: bookmarks time!:

Not sure we're talking about the same thing here?

This is what I call FF's Bookmarks Menu:

I mean Bookmarks Menu button on address bar. You have to add it to the address bar as it's not there by default.

Pathduck

@Stardust Well, like I said, I don't use Firefox and haven't since 2018

Stardust

@Pathduck how do even browse the internet?

Pathduck

@Stardust I prefer lynx

Folgore101

@Pathduck On PC of home from chrome://sync-internals the voice "Bookmarks Total Entries: 3537".

I don't use the button, just Panel Bookmarks by dragging the tabs into the folders that interest me, before i did it thanks to a mod, now this function has been implemented, i love it. I used this function already with Opera in 2000, i'm addicted to it.

@Stardust On the fact that it saves it immediately i share, i don't like it either, but functionally you don't change anything, indeed if it is already in the correct folder you save one clik. The "Done" button functions as "Close" if it is already in the right folder but if you have to put it in another folder it works as "Done".

mt8482

@marialeal Structured (folders within folders). Love the change implemented here :

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-android-6-7/
"Bookmarks: Based on user feedback, we have changed the Bookmarks Manager to show folders first. We also now open the Bookmarks Manager in the same folder you were in last time. "

There are a few things in Chrome Android which would be nice in Vivaldi android :

1)Chrome Android allows multiple tabs with chrome://bookmarks/ open, which allow one to navigate different bookmark folders in different tabs at the same time

2)When moving bookmarks Chrome Android shows only one level of the bookmark folder tree, whereas Vivaldi Android shows whole expanded tree. When one has many folders and subfolders, navigating the fully expanded bookmark folder tree can be difficult.

Thanks

marialeal

With a bit of delay here are last week's poll results!

Apparently 60% of you are proud of how structured your bookmarks are (wouldn't expect less ), 23% have only a couple of folders and 10% could not care less about organizing their bookmarks, while the remaining 7% don't even save bookmarks.

mt8482

@mt8482 @marialeal : which allow one to navigate different bookmark folders in different tabs at the same time - this should be possible to achieve/emulate using Speed dial if a few changes are implemented (see https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/782119)

PhredE

@stardepp I wonder if you could write a complete step by step article on how you add that script to a button.

PhredE

BTW, while Pathduck showed us what Firefox's Bookmarks menu looks like, and a microscope view it is, there is an extraordinary Firefox extension called Bookmark Search Plus 2 that not only shows you bookmarks in a side panel but also lets you search for the location of existing bmks - where thay are - so that you can place new with existing similar ones.

How many times do you wonder where you've put something? 'I'll get it for you' is absolutely no use.

Every browser should be able to do that imo.
Vivaldi?

Pathduck

@PhredE

https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/bookmarks-speed-dial/bookmarks/
https://help.vivaldi.com/desktop/bookmarks-speed-dial/bookmark-panel/

Hadden89

Still have to find the sweet point, as I tend to have a lot of legacies, but more or less I have as folders:

bookmarklets
main ( the concept is flaky because things changes quickly)
misc + subfolders ( eg: comic, converters, recipes, articles, software and so on).
mobile ( mostly unused but already have the few portals I need to access from mobile)