Right now I’m moving my stuff from Floorp over to Librewolf and noticed that some of my bookmarks are ones that were auto-created by Manjaro.
Manjaro was the first Linux distro I used as a daily driver (after Windows Update ate my boot partition) around the spring of 2022. I know that four years is not a long time, but within context, I’ve wiped and reinstalled my PC at least six times (soon to be seven) and moved from Firefox to Brave to Floorp to Librewolf, and those bookmarks survived everything.
I still have some bookmarks on my phone browser from when I was in school :3 I don’t really use the feature, so I forgot it was a thing until now and I checked lol
Do you just remember all the domains or what do you use instead of bookmarks?
Not the person you asked, but at some point I stopped using bookmarks and just started leaving 900 tabs open. I had no rational reason for this transition.
What happens if you close your browser and everything is wiped or switch machines?
Restore previous session, and I’ve used the same machine for 12 years. If I really wanted to migrate to a different computer I could save all open tabs as bookmarks. There’s been a few cases where I lost all the tabs, and I reopened those I remembered and figured the rest failed the rapid unscheduled tab cleanup.
Same! Check out tab groups. It’s a game changer, if you want to organize all those open tabs a bit.
Yeah, I operate mostly on the principle of “if it’s important, I’ll remember it/find it again”, though on some occasions I’ll also check my browser history in the rough time frame I know I was last on the site in question
I have had browser tabs open longer than that I’m pretty sure. Don’t even get me started on bookmarks.
Is this supposed to be a comment on how long you’ve had them or how short? That’s kinda of like saying you’ve had limes in the fridge since last week. Ok? I guess the sub is Dullsters, but man…
It’s less the length of time and more the number of times it should have been deleted, considering it has no value to me.
I have bookmarks from 2006. I stopped using bookmarks 10 years ago
I can’t remember when I did that. Probably around 2015 or something. Long before that, I used to have a curated and well organised collection of bookmarks, but at some point that just didn’t feel useful any longer.
Nowadays though, my collection is very small and none of them really matter. If I forgot to make backups, and had to reinstall everything, I could make new bookmarks in an hour.
Boy that is dull! Good for you. The most incredible thing about that post it that you took the time to write it out. Wow.
