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I just wanted to add that in modern browsers you can bookmark with 0 mouse clicks. Just CTRL+D it.

In Firefox it additionally focuses the "Tags" field which I find awesome. I was skeptical initially towards tags, but it's much easier to tag stuff with a brain dump of keywords coming to my mind, than to nicely put it into some hierarchical structure. The latter never worked for me.

The challenge is to manage synonymous tags in one's mind. I frequently tag something with e.g. javascript-foo tag and some other thing with foo-javascript. But you can easily move it later in the Library (CTRL-SHIFT-B).

Firefox handles search using the URL, the title stored, the tags, so with a mixture of all those in your location bar, it's super easy to find things. CTRL-L to focus the location bar and here you go.




Using vimperator, it takes an 'a' to bookmark anything. And using scripts,[1] I can bookmark things in kippt pressing 'A'.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/vimperator-labs/issues/detail?id=78...


Can you confirm that Firefox sync handles the tags correctly?

I've had great luck with xmarks, which correctly syncs the tags. But I'd like to know that there is always an alternative for a feature that I've come to depend so much on.


Bookmarking with Firefox is propriety. You won't be able to take your stuff out easily to another browser and/or do inter-operate. Firefox tags are just Firefox' tags.


I haven't used Firefox Sync actually so I can't tell.




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