Submitted by Maxbear35 on 2024/01/11 16:55

For quite a long time I have been locked into Firefox  as my default browser.

The reason being I was stuck with it was that it had one very useful add-on called Bookmarkshome. This addon didn't do anything too remarkable except to take your bookmarks (and I have a lot) and create a home page with bookmark links neatly arranged. 

It was fast, stable and I have come to rely on almost exclusively. Yes I know there are similar add ons for Chrome and other browsers but none as neat and compact as Bookmarkshome. Anyway cut a long story short. A few weeks ago Pierre showed me how the home page in IQ works and how I could make my own. Didn't have much use for it at the time until I suddenly remembered Firefox  could save an entire home page as a 'web page complete. I did this.  

Next I started a new IQ home page and said open file and selected the file created by Firefox.

..and there was my entire bookmarks file laid out with rows, columns and links all intact,  Freedom never felt as good. Now I can choose a new browser and simply link from the IQ home page.

So as the title says Just goes to show you what IQ is capable of doing if you just think it through.

 Thanks Pierre. Nice job.    

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Thanks Maxbear35 and a neat trick indeed

When it comes to choosing another browser, unless you're MS-phobic, Edge is really nice. Vertical tabs + tab groups is superb. An it is much less CPU / RAM intensive than Chrome. Just my 2 cents.

My New Tab extension is an outliner (surprised?): Bookmarks New Tab (google.com)

Pierre_Admin

I use both Chrome and Firefox, primarily Chrome.  I've avoided Edge, yes a bit MS-phobic.  But after your endorsement I may have to give Edge a try as my default. 

I wouldn't want my bookmarks on my home page, I've got way too many - because I bookmark all my tabs, so I can find just about everything I've looked at before and retrace my steps.

For my bookmarking tool I've long used Linkman, which is great, but it lacks some abilities that IQ has.  Also it has not been updated since 2017, and no support request gets a response.  The webpage is still up though - https://www.outertech.com/en/bookmarks-favorites .  Sometimes I've gone through a process to export the Linkman bookmarks and then import into IQ, but it's so complicated that I don't keep it up to date, and as a result, I don't really use it.

It would be really cool if IQ had a feature to "bookmark all open browser tabs" !!

 

 

After looking at it in more details, it seems that Edge stores bookmarks in JSON format. I was able to find one ODBC driver but it is a commercial product

If interested, I could expand the Remote Database sync to support JSON files. Shout if interested

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