Comments on: Firefox 3 Bookmark Tagging Demo

By: chiisaitsu

chiisaitsu — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:16:04 +0000

Bookmark Tags extension, baby: [addons.mozilla.org]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 20:55:15 +0000

For as much as I understand tags: If it would possible to save a new bookmark into many folders using checkboxes or keyboard to choose the folders where the new bookmark would be saved into, then tags and folders would be pretty much a same thing, or what?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:31:37 +0000

“All Bookmarks is the default location and doesn’t show up anywhere except for searches right now.”

I don’t understand what this is for? If a page bookmarked to All Bookmarks doesn’t show the bookmark anywhere then why should someone bookmark to nowhere? What does this mean?

By: Jack of all Trades

Jack of all Trades — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:34:46 +0000

i said it once, and i will say it again:
1. they need to allow hierarchy of tags, and let the user choose if selecting a lower level tag, will also cause the bookmark to get all the upper level tags that leads to it.
2. they need to have autocomplete of tags, to speedup the process of tagging. and i am guessing the Find As You Type will still be used, like in todays bookmark system.

i am not quite sure why they have both folder and tags, cause in the same time a tag can be a folder (see 1), but i guess its just the late hour that stops me from finding the logic in it.

By: DKong

DKong — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:09:23 +0000

I personally don’t think they need to tweak the download manager that much. I have it set to not remember any downloads, so the search bar is unnecessary.

As for the bookmarks system, I’m with xpgeek. I like it how it is right now.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:29:32 +0000

netster007x wrote:

I must admit, that looks pretty cool. I like that you know whether or not you’re on a bookmarked site. Also, looks like you can easily bookmark the site w/ default name/location w/ 1 click.

Yeah, it does have the 1-click access but that could lead to users having extremely cluttered bookmarks that are very unorganized.

xpgeek wrote:

I too have my downloads auto clear, I don’t see the point of keeping a huge history of downloaded files. They removed the option for it in main options, well removed part of it, now its remember em all or none at all. There is a third option now only able to be set in about:config.

Thanks for that tip! I think clearing the downloads when the browser exits is a great idea.

xpgeek wrote:

On this new bookmarking system, I know places is a whole new and better storage format, but what was wrong with the bookmarking system now. This whole new implementation seems kinda not really necessary.

I actually think a system like this is very necessary. Tagging is becoming the hit craze these days, and it makes bookmark storage more efficient. With how they have this implemented other services, like Del.icio.us, should be able to easily integrate into the Firefox browser.

By: xpgeek

xpgeek — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:48:10 +0000

I too have my downloads auto clear, I don’t see the point of keeping a huge history of downloaded files. They removed the option for it in main options, well removed part of it, now its remember em all or none at all. There is a third option now only able to be set in about:config.

browser.download.manager.retention
When to remove downloaded files’ entries from the Download Manager
0 – Upon successful download
1 – When the browser exits
2 – Manually

I use a setting of 1.

On this new bookmarking system, I know places is a whole new and better storage format, but what was wrong with the bookmarking system now. This whole new implementation seems kinda not really necessary.

By: netster007x

netster007x — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:29:02 +0000

I must admit, that looks pretty cool. I like that you know whether or not you’re on a bookmarked site. Also, looks like you can easily bookmark the site w/ default name/location w/ 1 click.