> > If that were possible, then I could exit Mozilla, start up
> > again, and have the page loaded and scrolled exactly to the
> > place I left off.
>
> Um, this is not only currently a feature of Mozilla, it exists
> in Netscape Communicator. EDIT/PREFERENCES/NAVIGATOR
> You can select "last page visited". When you start up Mozilla,
> you automagically go - to the last page visited.
Four problems with that plan:
1] "Last page visted" remembers one page, and only one, out of the
eight or nine pages I typically have open while I "surf".
2] "Last page visited" gives you the page defined by the last link you
clicked in some window (a seemingly randomly chosen one. I bet it's
the first one opened or some such, but it seems random to people with
as many windows open at once as I). This means that, if the page used
to be loaded inside a frame, it isn't now.
3] Scrollbars.
4] Neither "EDIT", "PREFERENCES" nor "NAVIGATOR" actually exits.
Perhaps you mean "Edit", "Preferences" and "Navigator".
> You'd probably enjoy adding the HISTORY tab to your Sidebar,
> too. This will allow you to revisit any page you've been to
> within the period that you preserve your surfing history.
The History tab (which is I'm assuming what you mean) shows the
last-visited sites catagorised by the domain name. But the point of
bookmarks is not to have to remember domain names. Yes, the History
tab works (sans scrollbar functionality) but it takes a lot of digging
around.
> > Does anyone else agree that "bookmark" is a misnomer?
>
> Nope. Bookmarks mark web*pages* I want to re-visit. The book
> is not the website, but the entire internet. I can't think of a
> better or more accurate name than bookmark.
"Favourite".
No, I'm not a Microsoft lover. I would contend that Mozilla is better
than Microsoft Internet Explorer. But they got "Favourite" right.
Possibly that is the only thing they did get right, but...
You don't go through the internet from cover to cover. You read bits.
You migth have favourite bits, but bookmarks have, since time
immemorial, been used to mark a place in a book mean to be read
sequentially.
