I think the keyword functionality is still there, though I've never bothered setting any up.
Re: the mass search for related sites. Getting stuff all in the same folder; I think I'd suggest just doing a rapid drive-by, leaving them all in the new magic "unfiled" folder, then going to the organiser and mass-moving them to the new folder. Though I can see how that might not be the best option in many situations. (It's not even close to intuitive, for starters)
Alternatively, if you are a fan of tabbed browsing, open all the pages in tabs in the same window, then use bookmarks->bookmark all tabs option, which dumps them all in one folder anyway. I think that feature's in FF2.x, though I may be wrong because I never use it. Again, probably sub-optimal for most people's browsing behaviour, unless they're rigorous about killing dead-end tabs and not killing "good" ones.
However, there's still no way to add a single tag to a bunch of bookmarks all at once.
(Hmm. bug 412002. Dunno If that'll make it into FF3 final, given the size of the patch and the proximity of the release, but it's not being shot down by the appropriate people who are obviously aware of it, so it could happen)
Like I said, bookmark handling sucks. I think this is a case where Firefox is getting much better, but there are still problems. I didn't want to whine in the main post about the things that I want that are still missing, because FF3 is miles ahead of anything else I've ever used.
To return again to the mass search: I also suspect that the "awesome bar" will actually work pretty well if you just type "tent" after doing the surfing - it works on page titles of both history and bookmarks too, so if the people writing the websites are putting proper meaningful titles on their pages...
I'll make a wild prognostication and say that there will be loads of bookmark/history/places-based extensions in 6-12 months time, which may provide the sort of functionality we're after. Not to mention the possiblity of evolution in FF4...
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Re: Excellent!
Date: 2008-04-24 19:01 (UTC)Re: the mass search for related sites.
Getting stuff all in the same folder; I think I'd suggest just doing a rapid drive-by, leaving them all in the new magic "unfiled" folder, then going to the organiser and mass-moving them to the new folder. Though I can see how that might not be the best option in many situations. (It's not even close to intuitive, for starters)
Alternatively, if you are a fan of tabbed browsing, open all the pages in tabs in the same window, then use bookmarks->bookmark all tabs option, which dumps them all in one folder anyway. I think that feature's in FF2.x, though I may be wrong because I never use it. Again, probably sub-optimal for most people's browsing behaviour, unless they're rigorous about killing dead-end tabs and not killing "good" ones.
However, there's still no way to add a single tag to a bunch of bookmarks all at once.
(Hmm. bug 412002. Dunno If that'll make it into FF3 final, given the size of the patch and the proximity of the release, but it's not being shot down by the appropriate people who are obviously aware of it, so it could happen)
Like I said, bookmark handling sucks. I think this is a case where Firefox is getting much better, but there are still problems. I didn't want to whine in the main post about the things that I want that are still missing, because FF3 is miles ahead of anything else I've ever used.
To return again to the mass search: I also suspect that the "awesome bar" will actually work pretty well if you just type "tent" after doing the surfing - it works on page titles of both history and bookmarks too, so if the people writing the websites are putting proper meaningful titles on their pages...
I'll make a wild prognostication and say that there will be loads of bookmark/history/places-based extensions in 6-12 months time, which may provide the sort of functionality we're after. Not to mention the possiblity of evolution in FF4...