[sidpatil]

> The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great.

I like Zotero precisely because of its UI. It's efficient, and reminds me of the Firefox bookmarks manager.

In fact, I wish I could replace or merge Firefox's bookmark manager with Zotero, so I'd get the best of both worlds.

[jmiserez]

Zotero is/was a XUL application, and the whole application used to (also) be a Firefox plugin. So the similarities are not unexpected.

[retorquere]

Is, for now. The parts of FF that Zotero relied on are being phased out (listed on the Mozilla docs site as "Archive of obsolete content"), so a transition to Electron is planned, and as part of that transition plan, parts are already being rewritten from XUL into React/HTML.

[novok]

I was wondering how they implemented native UI with just javascript and nothing obvious in their package.json

[bloopernova]

I like the Firefox bookmarks manager a lot, especially the tags you can apply to a bookmark then search on.

If I get good enough with Lisp, I want to write an importer that takes all the tags from my bookmarks sqlite db, write them into org-mode files with each tagged bookmark listed in the relevant file.

[andrepd]

Firefox's bookmark and history manager is atrocious x) Reminds me of IE5 or something like that.