270060 - Ability to 'rebookmark' pages

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Glynn Foster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Using the simple 'read a book' paradigm, you can read a few chapters, then
insert your bookmark. Time later, you can pick up where you left off, read a few
more chapters, then rebookmark where you stop.
This functionality would be *really* useful - especially for reading long
articles/tutorials/novels online.
Currently you need to create a new bookmark, which is independent of any other
bookmark.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Markus Bertheau]

I can do that now by just leaving that browser window open. The next time I log
in session management will restore that window and let me read further. I'm
using epiphany - I don't know if firefox does session management yet.

The back button history is gone though. I'm going to file an enhancement request
with the epiphany developers for that.

Comment 2

[Mugros]

I doubt that this will be possible. At least, not as an automatic process.
Sometimes you want multiple bookmarks with the same domain. If you got
domain/page1.htm and domain/page2.htm how could the mechanism determine whether
you want both bookmarks or update the first?
The browser could ask if you want a new bookmark or update the old if the domain
ist the same but IMHO this will be too annoying for most users.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

starring sounds as a good strategy for this, star the point where you are, when you restart reading you unstar, go on, and star again on the new page.

Having bookmarks that automatically changes their uri, or detecting if you are in a subpage of a bookmark do not appear good nor easy to do (we can't be sure about how a site is built)

could be implemented someway by an extension probably

Comment 5

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

yeah, this is definitely extension material, so marking WONTFIX.

Comment 6

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

also, per earlier comments: the session management feature (since Firefox 2) can basically do this for your whole browsing session. it remembers all open windows and tabs, even scroll and zoom settings per page.