CFA/Bookmarks-Research

General browser capabilities

In the following table:

P = available through Primary UI (menu items, toolbar)
S = available through Secondary UI (anywhere else)
blank = not available
# = see item in Notes
The browsers listed are, in order: Firefox 2, Camino, Flock, iCab, IE7, Maxthon, Netscape, OmniWeb, Opera, Safari, SeaMonkey, and Shiira.

	Fx2	Cam	Flo	iCa	IE7	Max	Net	Omn	Ope	Saf	Sea	Shi
Add/manage regular bookmarks	P	P	P	P	P¹⁸	P	P	P	P	P¹²	P	P
Add/manage quick bookmarks			P					S⁵			P	P
Bookmark toolbar	P	P	P	P		P²²	P²⁴	P	S	P	P	S¹⁴
Multiple bookmark toolbars			P				P²⁴
View bookmark organizer	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	S
Bookmark organizer as sidebar	S				P¹⁹	P	S		S		S
Bookmark organization - Tagging			P			S²⁰
Bookmark organization - Folders	S	P	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	P	S	S
Bookmark organization - Smartfolders
Bookmark organization - Simple list sorting	S		S				S	S	S		S
Bookmark organization - Advanced sorting		S¹⁰						S¹¹
Search bookmarks - Simple	S		S			S	S	S	S	S	S
Search bookmarks - Advanced
Bookmark single tab^*	S			S			S
Bookmark all tabs	P	S	P	P	P	P	P				P	P¹⁵
Open all bookmarks in folder as tabs	S	S	S	P	S	S	S	S	S	S
Export bookmarks	S	P	?	?	P	S	S		S	P	S
Import bookmarks	S	P	P²	P	P	S	P²³	S²	S	P	S	S¹⁶
Sync bookmarks, no server component											S¹³
Sync bookmarks, server component						P²¹		S⁶		S⁹	S¹³
Sync bookmarks, server + web app components						?
Share bookmarks - public			S			?
Share bookmarks - with group						P²¹		S⁷
Share bookmarks - with one other person						?
Share bookmarks - with self (private)			S			P²¹
Bookmark keywords	S	S					S	S	S		S
Bookmark smart keywords	S		S	S				S	S
Annotate bookmarks	S¹	S¹	S¹	S¹			S¹	S¹	S¹		S¹
In-page annotations
Share annotations			?
Organize annotations
Sort annotations	S³		S³				S³
Search annotations			S⁴						S⁸
Web feed handling**	P		P	S	P	P	P	S	P	P		S¹⁷

Notes

^* - Different than regular "Add page as bookmark"
^** - Web feeds will be dealt with in more detail in another report
? - Not 100% sure about this

In these browsers you can add a "Description" in a bookmark's properties.
Only found Safari, not Firefox.
Alphabetical sort only, in bookmark organizer.
Bookmark search also searches annotations, but you cannot specifically search only annotations/description field.
You can only do regular or quick bookmarks in OmniWeb, not both. It's a settable pref.
.mac or webDAV, settable through preferences.
Local network share only.
If search term is in description field, bookmark shows in results but the description/annotation is not shown in the results list. It's a little strange.
.mac only
Top 10 List only -- not very advanced, but better than nothing.
Sort by "most visited" available.
Includes a toolbar button.
Experimental (pre-alpha?) Roaming User Profiles. Appears to allow automated local export/import of profile data, as well as to a remote server. Couldn't figure out how to make it work.
No clue who this works. Couldn't get the bookmarks bar to do anything.
This doesn't seem to be implemented, but there is a menu item for it.
Seems to do this automatically -- not sure if modifying bookmarks in Shiira will modify bookmarks in the other browsers as well.
Just renders the feed, no subscription options.
There is a button, but the button opens a menu and you have to click the menu item to bring up the dialog. It's somewhat bewildering.
Bookmark organizer is only available as a sidebar.
Not sure if these are properly tags or not. I can add them, and they're called "tags" in the dialog, but I can't seem to figure out what they do, if anything.
Not sure how to make this work yet. Service was "busy" and not available when I tried. This is listed as "Primary" because it is explained in the first-run dialogs when creating a new Maxthon account.
Doesn't really work like a proper bookmark toolbar. Includes all bookmarks, not just a specific subset, and cannot be drag-and-dropped to, etc.
Appears in a first-run dialog.
Not really bookmark toolbars - called the "Multibar". Not sure how (or if it's possible) to add bookmarks to these. Very odd and awkward. Not sure how to use these at all.