improving bookmarklets

Tommy B <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Nov 2011 06:39:09 -0800 (PST)
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Problem:
Right now, every type of bookmark folder is stuffed into the bookmarks
menu. It is super cluttered with the menu coommands(show all
bookmarks, bookmark this page, bookmark all tabs), unsorted bookmarks,
bookmarks toolbar, and the actual bookmarks. This is very cluttered by
mixing everything together. With the addition of adding bookmarklet,
it will be even more cluttered.

Currently, there is no way of quickly accessing bookmarklets without
the bookmarks toolbar. Storing bookmarkslets in the top level
bookmarks folder would make it easy to access, but it would mean
opening that cluttered mess.

Solution:
It would be better to have a bookmarks button in the navigation
toolbar that can access a subdirectory of the bookmarks toolbar as the
top level menu, this way it keeps it clean.

Solution partially implememted else where:
Safari has implemented reading list and treat that as a top level
concept on par with bookmarks.

firefox advantage with more flexibility:
It would be better if firefox supported bookmarklets as a top level
concept. This would make it even better than safari, because it can
support many features like instapaper, delicious, readability, and
many more awesome bookmarklets. All these features wcan be qicky
accessed without installing site specific add-ons.