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by copperx 1373 days ago
Web browsers are strange. They are sophisticated pieces of engineering, but they refuse to implement the lowest hanging fruit features UX wise.
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A cynical take is that they purposely hold back bookmarks/offline-search so that you use their web search engine instead.
They are built by people who are excited about the web, so it sort of makes sense that anything off the critical path of: “make websites and web applications great” would be deemed less important. Why make local search when there is a web application called Google?

Ferraris probably aren’t know for having sufficient cup holders.