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Watch Out IE 7, Firefox 3 Ups The Standards For Bookmarking Management |
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| Mozilla Firefox did it again, staying ahead of Microsoft in the home user browser wars, in particuliar, enhancing the managment of bookmarks. Mozilla really looked outside of the box, as usual, as bookmarks are controlled and organized through its own integrated section of the browser called the "Library". At first glance all seems the same, however unlike the other browsers: Opera, Safari and Internet Explorer that still utilize the filesystem to manage and control bookmarks/favorites. Firefox utilizes the power of JSON(JavaScript Object Notation) and a local integrated database, SQLite. Using a DB and the light yet powerful JSON dataset, this enters undiscovered territories in the web browser world. Some of these new features can be seen and accessed within the Library. |
| | Not to go off topic, but Firefox received 8 million downloads in a 24 hour period, with this, it inserted itself into the Guiness Book of World Records for the most downloads in 1 day. However, Firefox is restricted by a protective patent held by Microsoft in utilizing Visual Basic in webpages. This restriction will continue to be a large issue for Firefox as corporations and businesses primarily develop in Microsoft languages. The example that corporations are setting to the general non technical population is that Microsoft products are better. This one hurdle is what "holds back" Firefox as being the most reputable web browser. | Enough talk on the only problem Firefox has, lets discuss on why it totally rocks.
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The Library | To access the library you can do it in one of two ways. Shortcut key --> Ctrl+Shift+B (Windows) Shortcut key --> UpArrow+Apple+B (Apple) Click --> Bookmarks --> "Organize Bookmarks" | Once in the library, you will have options to: Backup your bookmarks (export to JSON file or HTML) Restore from a file(import from a JSON file or HTML) Restore from a previous day (default is 5 days) | These options make it extremely easy to share and transport your bookmarks from machine to machine. Additionally, the export to HTML, which was a carry over from previous versions, is great if you have a personal website and want to have your bookmarks available across the internet from various machines. For some people that haven't heard of JSON, its more or less the a 'super' dataset that is fast, lightweight and portable. For the non technical people, this evolving technology is super cool. New software and web developments are choosing this over XML as a choice of holding data. This can be seen first hand in many Google Map/Earth AJAX Based website applications.
| You will also have many options to sort each bookmark on: Ability to View Last Visit Date Visit Count Most Visited Description Date Added Last Modified | How to add a bookmark | Adding bookmarks (aka Favorites) is still performed the same easy way as in prior versions. When saving a bookmark you'll be presented to: Name the bookmark Select or Create a new folder to store the bookmark Place 'tags' separated by commas | Here are the three ways to bookmark a site that your currently at: Within Firefox's menu, Click --> Bookmarks --> 'Bookmark this page' Keyboard shortcut --> ctrl+d right click --> select 'Bookmark this page' | | Tags, mentioned above, is a new option that will allow for better organization as well as to label the content in your own words. If this page was found in a result of a search engine search, a good idea is to use the keywords you searched on as the tags. | Tag Examples: Personal Business Finance Windows Apple Linux Programming Tutorials Videos | As you add new tags, automatically these new tags will be added to window where you can check/select the relevant tag to new bookmarks. This new feature is just one of the many features that the backend DB empowers us to do.
Firefox is continuing improve in all areas of web browsing. With the JSON and the backend DB, stay tuned for some rocking plugins that the developer community will provide! | LINKS
Guiness Book of World Records - EIGHT MILLION DOWNLOADS in a day!
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