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by fasa99 796 days ago
browser history is a log and presumably contains things one doesn't care about after reading but definitely so for tabs and bookmarks as "things that are interesting" - the tab is notable because it has a back/forward aspect.

It seems to me in this day & age you have media organization tools (jellyfin? I think it's called?) that just handle everything. I'd love to see some basic AI language model (more of the BERT/gensim flavor likely) that can similarly auto-organize trounces of bookmarks, I have way too many.

The other interesting and increasingly relevant feature towards bookmarks would be the concept of saving them for posteriority, as we know the internet is not forever, whether this means a local save or a ping to archive.org as to say "someone bookmarked this maybe you can hang onto it". The trick of it there is not just capturing all the content of a webpage including videos, but if we say "tabs are bookmarks" then maybe you want to capture the back/forward button pages to a degree.

Anyway that's what my dream browser might look like. Also dream browser powerfully denies browser fingerprinting.