Emlyn wrote:
>>>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.
>
You can choose how the 'History' tab sorts its data by clicking on the
wierd icon that is right near the top of that tab's scrooll bar.
I know that in the olden days of NCSA Mosaic, there was such a thing as
"Session Bookmarks", and I think Opera might have this feature as well.
I'm not against it, but I have no problem wiht 1) keeping a very large
set of bookmarks, and 2) creating a 'Temp' folder for those that I won't
need again.
I don't think 'Bookmarks' as a term is inappropraite. Mosaic called it a
HotList, MS calls them Favorites, Moz uses bookmark. "A rose..." etc. I
think, for your example, I'd just save the document to my HDD, so I
wouldn't have to worry about the site being down, and I could view it
wihtout being online, and I could just delete it when done, wihtout
going through 'Manage Bookmarks'.
-bZj
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Brian Z Jones | down8 at yahoo dot com
Mozilla 0.9.3 | Windows2000 Server SP2
