Favorite Way to Store Web Pages?

Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-11 02:29:58

Hey Bunseniers...Bunters? (trying to think up a name for us...)

Anyway, while using Firefox, and Iceweasel i'm noticing that I have a huge amount of tabs open concurrently.If I ever have to restart, or something happens, I lose all of my tabs. (though FF/I.W are pretty good at session restoration) I'm not a huge fan of the way bookmarks are stored so I ask you guys, how do you guys stash a url that you want to come back to, to read but not keep it cluttering up your speed dial buttons. preferably something that's easy to access, and not hidden away under menus, or else I'll forget to ever go back and re-visit the site. Any sort of application or add-on that gives you a "front page" list of sites you're saving for later, but doesn't get in the way of current browsing?

tynman · 2015-11-11 04:31:28

In Firefox and Iceweasel.. use the Bookmarks feature. To create a "bookmark" for the current page, use CTRL-D to open the Bookmark dialog window, then click the "Done" button.

To later open a bookmarked page, use Alt-B to get the list of bookmarked pages, and click on the one you want.

Ben

Temetka · 2015-11-11 04:34:00

Sometimes I copy the links I want to remember for later, but not bookmark forever to a temporary text file.

I trash the file when I'm done.

gako · 2015-11-11 04:45:35

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Hey Bunseniers...Bunters? (trying to think up a name for us...)

I think lab rats is good

Anywho, I've always saved webpages to a directory rather than bookmarks, and I can name them whatever I want. Then open them from terminal with an select array.

I always have a term open so it's a nice bookmarking solution for me.

ohnonot · 2015-11-11 07:46:19

i guess my browsing habits are different.
if i really need to save something, i bookmark it, usually i drag it into dedicated directories (linux, android...).
otherwise, and i cannot stress this highly enough, i simply rely on firefox inbuilt history & fuzzy URL search.
(what was that youtube video with cars i saw yesterday?... type "yout car" in url bar, there it is)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-11-11 07:58:43

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Bunseniers...Bunters? (trying to think up a name for us...)

Blabbers 8o
*runs away*

/Moved to Off Topic

pvsage · 2015-11-11 08:41:05

I prefer "burners".

I have Iceweasel set to open the same tabs I had open in the last session; I tend to just middle-click and open a new tab, and eventually I will get a round toit. Currently have about 14 tabs open and waiting for round toits...

glittersloth · 2015-11-11 08:52:54

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Bunters?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bunter
Either that or we're practitioners of that pansy cop-out move they do in luckswing baseball.

On topic: There are also web services that store bookmarks for you, though I can't recall their names. You'd probably need to sign up with email or something, so there's that slight inconvenience, along with the usual risks of cloud-based everything.

I'm probably a mix of old and new school with regards to bookmarking. Good ol' browser bookmarking for websites I visit often, along with a keyword (eg: bl in address bar takes me straight to this forum) if possible, sorted by category. For specific pages, I copy-pasta them into a text file, again sorted by folders. On the "new" end, I use those read-it-later services. Was on Pocket up until a couple of months ago (bastids introduced featured I didn't fancy) but now I'm on Instapaper. Great for saving articles to read later, either with the phone while on the go or via their own web interface in a browser.

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Horizon_Brave · 2015-11-11 09:03:55

Remember, I don't want to save these sites forever.. so they're not needed on my perma-bookmark page... I just want to save them for a maybe 2 to 4 or 5 days. Like right now I have 37 tabs open... And I have to scroll horizontally back and forth through the tab line on my browser, which is very annoying.

Can you have it where you display multiple lines of tabs, instead of one single line on the browser? I suppose that'd help... but still I hate have that many open at once...I feel it eats up resources...

glittersloth · 2015-11-11 09:07:55

Horizon_Brave wrote:

Can you have it where you display multiple lines of tabs, instead of one single line on the browser? I suppose that'd help... but still I hate have that many open at once...I feel it eats up resources...

Like tab stacking, where you click on one tab to reveal a bunch of tabs, or something similar like that? There should be browser plugins for that, though I don't think they actually save on resources - you're still committing memory to the tabs, plus memory to run the plugin/extension.

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brontosaurusrex · 2015-11-11 09:12:58

a. There is a "Session manager" extension (save all tabs, load all tabs and such). for 37 tabs you could have 4 windows open each holding a session of around 9 tabs.

b. This could work as well

alias session1='iceweasel google.com bunsenlabs.org github.com'

c. a local html page with some js magic, example

<a onclick="window.open('http://www.javascripthtml.com/category/javascript/'); window.open('http://www.javascripthtml.com/category/javascript/angularjs/')" href="http://www.javascripthtml.com/category/html/" target="_blank">JavaScript HTML related links </a>

more: http://www.javascripthtml.com/open-mult … k-in-html/

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BLizgreat! · 2015-11-11 17:53:16

Blabbers, ... +1 Hoas.

Can't really answer this, I do a combo of just about every approach others have mentioned here, save to a directory ( if it's a subject am really interested in.) On hard drive or in directory of bookmarks, copy to text files while researching summin and compiling findings + relevant URL's on x-topic.

Also seem to have a habit of excessively using the bookmark all tabs feature in firefox, end up with a directory in bookmarks called temp something, a word somewhat associated with the subject and ( hopefully ) a date. Keep meaning to go through and clean up the mess.

Though considering it's FF and just about every other browser worth a hades out there. Would see what extensions for managing tabs/bookmarks are available. Shouldn't be a shortage and you can also reconfigure much in about:config so that more tabs are saved, session is saved more often etc etc, whatever you want.

Vll!

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MAC the Bloody · 2015-11-11 23:00:19

pvsage wrote:

I have Iceweasel set to open the same tabs I had open in the last session

I do this too. Great for when you have to go off to do something else and you want to come back to things. So that's the solution for temp page saving.

I have a well organised bookmarks section for things I want to come back to "at some future time".

For items I want to actually save permanently I used to use ScrapBook. I also tried saving as mht files using Opera because of the single file format, but now I use Mozilla Archive Format for this. Once saved, the pages in question simply go into my data files in a suitable subject folder. Mozilla Archive Format can also read most of my mht files so it was an easy migration.

tranjeeshan · 2015-11-12 04:28:29

I use Wallabag's web service. I one-click-save webpages in it. I like it for it's open source.

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KrunchTime · 2015-11-12 08:50:47

@OP: I keep a KeePassX database of my bookmarks. Someone over at the #! forums gave me the idea. I haven't stored my bookmarks in a browser since. KeePassX is available in the repos.

By the way, the title you gave this thread is a bit misleading. Perhaps Favorite Way to Store Bookmarks would be better?

Last edited by KrunchTime (2015-11-12 08:52:43)

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