[overcast]

Every browser has book marking syncing in some capacity these days. It's the equivalent of losing contacts with a new phone in 1999.

[tjoff]

Not without creating an account, on Android.

Chrome has no other export functionality. And firefox copied that lack-of-feature without even realizing the motivations.

So now one have to copy them one by one.

[lostlogin]

I must be misunderstanding something here, can you please explain the missing feature?

I load a set of bookmarks into Firefox on client machines regularly, but I suspect this isn’t what you are discussing.

[tjoff]

I'm are talking firefox/chrome for android only. The only way to export bookmarks (and possibly import) is to register for an account and sync them.

There is no way to export them to an xml/whatever file (pretty sure you could at least in firefox before, but I guess it was too hard to maintain...).

[cortesoft]

Or create an account?

[tjoff]

Surf with chrome logged in? Will never happen. Hard no as long as my sanity remains.

Firefox, maybe, haven't looked into it and just the process of evaluating it isn't worth it. Mozilla doesn't have the track record that I want to blindly trust them with that either.

[ChikkaChiChi]

I wouldn't recommend putting the onus on the end user to remember how to find your product. Too many assumptions.

[overcast]

That was a response to them having an issue with losing bookmarks. Are bookmarks in general now a negative onus?

[macintux]

As search engines have gotten better over the years, I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never.

Part of that is due to the fact that iOS is now my primary consumption platform, and finding bookmarks in a complex structure is much more awkward than it should be.

Part of it is just laziness: trying to manage a complex bookmark folder is more work than I care to do when search engines give me 99% of what I need.

[anais9]

For what it's worth I had the same problem with folder/hierarchically structured bookmarks, but tag-based bookmarking (like del.icio.us used to provide) meshed very well with me and my workflow so I wrote https://savecrate.com (still a WIP and rough around the edges but functional enough to work for me)

[ChikkaChiChi]

I even pay for pinboard and barely use it.

It'd be great if every time I went back to a website, all the pages on the site that I already bookmarked would pop in a sidebar...

[lostlogin]

> I find my use of bookmarks is usually write-once read-never

I found this with Instapaper. What was a bookmark and what was a read-later?