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by severine 815 days ago
I currently use Firefox bookmarks, synced through my Mozilla account. What would be the advantages for me if I were to use Webtag?

Related: does anyone know if there's any limit to synced bookmarks/history in Firefox?

2 comments

Do you ever feel like Firefox is forgetting your bookmarks or search is bad?

Not endorsing this project or any other, but from time to time I’m a bit suspicious that firefox is dropping some links I’m sure I saved/not surfacing some links I’m fairly sure were related to my search.

Likely all in my head though!

The search is bad.

Example: If you tag one entry with "meta" and another with "metaverse", then search bookmarks for "meta", you'll get the union of anything containing meta. Particularly problematic in the case of short terms like "ux", "go", or "c".

Use the search filters.

> Add ^ to show only matches in your browsing history.

> Add * to show only matches in your bookmarks.

> Add + to show only matches in bookmarks you've tagged.

> Add % to show only matches in your currently open tabs.

> Add # to show only matches where every search term is part of the title or part of a tag.

> Add $ to show only matches where every search term is part of the web address (URL). The text “https://xn--ivg or “http://xn--ivg in the URL is ignored, but not “file:///”.

> Add ? to show only search suggestions.

You can select the search constraint in the dropdown if you don't want to memorize the list.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

I meant in the bookmark search, the search box which appears after pressing cmd/ctrl-b.

This is still an interesting workaround, I'll give a shot. Thanks!

No, I definitely feel that Firefox is forgetting some of my bookmarks. And the search is indeed awful.

I switched to buku and rofi-buku, which is more robust, convenient and accessible solution. And not tied to a single browser (I use several, for example, different browsers for leisure and for work).

Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction? I can't see how it would matter to any other person how you specifically choose to sync your bookmarks.
> Why should somebody try to convince you in either direction?

Because we are on a tech website and as good samaritans we want to help each other out by sharing the information, knowledge, projects, tools or recommendations we have?