The problem with this approach is that those “read later” bookmarks get mixed with the other bookmarks. It would of course be possible to create a special bookmarks folder for temporary bookmarks, but that would require some dragging and dropping, or navigating through the bookmark structure before the bookmark could be saved.

TempMarks offers a solution. The Google Chrome extension places an icon in the Chrome address bar upon installation which can be used to add, access and clear temporary bookmarks.

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The extension in its current stage offers the controls after clicking on the extension icon. Here it is possible to add the active site to the temporary bookmark’s list, clean the list or access previously saved bookmarks.

It takes a total of three clicks to save a bookmark, and two clicks to load a website or clean the listing.

The developer could streamline this process by saving the website automatically if the plus button is clicked on in the interface.

A keyboard shortcut to save and access temporarily saved bookmarks would be handy as well.

The biggest advantage of TempMarks is that it stores the temporary bookmarks in its interface, and not in the Chrome bookmarks.

TempMarks (via Caschy can be downloaded directly from the Google Chrome extensions gallery.

Firefox users can look at Tark Temporary Bookmarks for a similar add-on.

One prime example would be to bookmark an offer on a website that expires after a set amount of time. It would not make much sense to keep the bookmark afterwards unless a new offer would be put on the same page. Might also be interesting for research.

TARK is a Firefox add-on that can make the bookmarks temporarily available. It does so by providing access to a new toolbar button – or several buttons – that make it possible to mark bookmarks. Bookmarks can be set to be available for up to four weeks using the Firefox add-on. Keep in mind that this is an option, it is still perfectly possible to add bookmarks the usual way which ensures that they will never expire.

Setup requires to drag and drop one or multiple toolbar buttons of the add-on into a Firefox toolbar. This is done by right-clicking a toolbar and selecting the customize option. Each Tark setting is available as one button but there is also a button with a drop down menu that combines them all.

The options of the add-on contain interesting settings. The add-on can be set to reset the expiration counter whenever the bookmarked page is accessed. The very same option provide access to new, unexpired and expired bookmarks which means that it is possible to recover expired web pages.