Web browser bookmarks seem to have lost much of their appeal in past years. The same can be said for bookmarking sites like Delicious which have seen a drop in user count. Question is: What are users doing instead? Are they posting interesting links to their social networking profiles to have them available there? This [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Firefox bookmarks are accessible for all users of a computer system if one user account is used instead of individual user accounts. This can be a issue if you want to protect data from being seen or accessed by other users. But even if there are multiple user accounts, chance is that some may have [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One of the biggest issues for users who work with different web browsers is synchronization. This includes passwords, log in information and of course bookmarks. Most browsers come with synchronization options, but those only include synchronizing bookmarks between versions of the same browser. And the import option is only important a certain state which means [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Software, Windows

Favicons are little icons that can be used to identify websites. These icons are for instance displayed in the tabbar, for each opened tab one, and in the bookmarks folder. Firefox adds the icons to both locations automatically. It can however happen that imported bookmarks are imported without favicons. There is no option to retrieve [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Are you using bookmarks to keep track of your reading progress on a specific website? Bookmarks are quite handy to save the current page on a website, so that you can continue your reading at a later time without having to find that specific page again. The only problem is, you can end up with [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Every web browser comes with bookmarking capabilities, and while bookmarking is not as popular as it was ten years ago, it is fair to assume that the majority of computer users make use of bookmarks. What is a bookmark? Standard bookmarks are nothing more than links that point to a web address. Bookmarks are like [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera

Firefox offers many options to work with bookmarks in the browser. From the standard Bookmarks menu to a single icon in one of the toolbars, almost everything is possible by default. Some users on the other hand may want additional options which are usually added by installing add-ons. Samfind Bookmarks Bar is an add-on that [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Every modern web browser offers to save bookmarks that act as a reminder and quick way to open websites. Internet users who save bookmarks regularly end up with hundreds, and sometimes even thousands of bookmarks. The major problem here is that bookmarks do not update automatically. What this means is that bookmarks become invalid if [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you want to have direct access to bookmarks in the Google Chrome browser, you either need to display the bookmarks toolbar, use the tools menu or install an extension that offers direct access to the bookmarks stored in the web browser. Neat Bookmarks falls into the last category. The Chrome extension adds an icon [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome