Have just downloaded and installed the new Firefox 3 Beta 4 and found myself reading the Release notes rather in awe of what we have in store for us. Understandably, Firefox is a surfer's wet dream. It has great features and add-ons which make it so user-friendly it's ridiculous. Have just been blown away by the new bookmarking setup in this version: Places.
It is a great way of bookmarking pages, minus all the pains of bookmarking. So bookmarking, the way I do it, is have a bunch of folders on the Bookmarks toolbar folder (called "Important", "Blogs", "Comics", "Reading", etc) , each of which contains a list of links to related sites. Now the problem with this is two-fold: If the number of such folders gets out of hand, the Bookmark toolbar is too long, and now has a little arrow on the right telling me there is some stuff out there. So now you have a folder called "S" for "Stuff". It contains everything from Youtube videos of kids playing rad. guitar, to news about a local book fair next week. ie. kinda stuffed.
The other major problem is having too many links in the "reading" folder : everything from a BBC article on shell-fish to a random blogger's take on Calvin N Hobbes. Not so good if I need to scroll through 15 sites before getting to the one I want to read.
In short: the problem would be solved if I just had a way of searching my bookmarks from the location bar. ie. the new Places "Tags"! All you do is, when you bookmark a website, just give it a tag, like "blog, shark, miniature". Now if you type any of those 3 words, the bookmarked website will show up under the location bar! Love this!
More importantly, the list is sorted in decreasing order of "frecency" (frequency+recency). Just found all of this, and am extremely impressed. Now I don't have to worry about limiting the number of websites I bookmark ever!
Firefox 3 Beta 4 review : Mozilla Links
It is a great way of bookmarking pages, minus all the pains of bookmarking. So bookmarking, the way I do it, is have a bunch of folders on the Bookmarks toolbar folder (called "Important", "Blogs", "Comics", "Reading", etc) , each of which contains a list of links to related sites. Now the problem with this is two-fold: If the number of such folders gets out of hand, the Bookmark toolbar is too long, and now has a little arrow on the right telling me there is some stuff out there. So now you have a folder called "S" for "Stuff". It contains everything from Youtube videos of kids playing rad. guitar, to news about a local book fair next week. ie. kinda stuffed.
The other major problem is having too many links in the "reading" folder : everything from a BBC article on shell-fish to a random blogger's take on Calvin N Hobbes. Not so good if I need to scroll through 15 sites before getting to the one I want to read.
In short: the problem would be solved if I just had a way of searching my bookmarks from the location bar. ie. the new Places "Tags"! All you do is, when you bookmark a website, just give it a tag, like "blog, shark, miniature". Now if you type any of those 3 words, the bookmarked website will show up under the location bar! Love this!
More importantly, the list is sorted in decreasing order of "frecency" (frequency+recency). Just found all of this, and am extremely impressed. Now I don't have to worry about limiting the number of websites I bookmark ever!
Firefox 3 Beta 4 review : Mozilla Links
New in Beta 4 is adaptive learning: Firefox will keep an eye of what you type and what you select. After a few repetitions Firefox will understand what you’re trying to do and provide better suggestions. This should address the case where frecency (a combined frequency and recency index) didn’t provide the best results.
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