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= Rethinking Firefox Bookmarking =
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[[Places]] brings many new capabilities to the bookmarks and history system. However, the UI for accessing and managing bookmarks has not really changed that much. In this document, we describe some potential future directions.
== Motivation ==
Bookmarks work very well for pages that are revisited often. For these pages, the small mental overhead of filing in the proper place for easy retrieval is offset by the benefit that the user recieves. Firefox currently handles this case very well.
However, other important use-cases are not handled well. Some of the use-cases we would like to handle (see also [[Bookmarks Use Cases]] for lots of ideas) are:
''Please comment in the discussion section rather than changing this page.''
[[Places]] brings many new capabilities to the bookmarks and history system. However, the UI for accessing and managing bookmarks has not really changed that much. In this document, we describe some potential future directions.
== Motivation ==
Bookmarks work very well for pages that are revisited often. For these pages, the small mental overhead of filing in the proper place for easy retrieval is offset by the benefit that the user recieves. Firefox currently handles this case very well.
However, other important use-cases are not handled well. Some of the use-cases we would like to handle (see also [[Bookmarks Use Cases]] for lots of ideas) are:
