Good thing: Del.icio.us Bookmarks Add-on for Firefox
Jun 5th, 2008 by brianschettler
Although I’ve known about their existence before, I’ve always shied away from installing some add-on to manage my del.icio.us bookmarks. Why do I need something extra? The website and “post to del.icio.us” bookmark works just fine. I can go to the website and click the tags I want, save it, and I’m done. But here is something interesting. The addon saves me a trivial amount of time…maybe three or four seconds because it’s much more instantaneous than loading delicious, saving the bookmark, then returning to the page. There’s a button right on the toolbar, one click, a small window opens, click the tags, save, done. The old way was two clicks (for me, I don’t like the bookmarks toolbar…I feel it makes it cluttered. I would click Bookmarks > post to delicious). Wait for the delicious to load, same process, then wait for the original site to come back (and also find your place in the site again if it was a long site and you were somewhere in the middle of the page). I find the math interesting: if I bookmark just two sites per day, at an extra 3 seconds it adds up to 36.5 minutes each year wasted.
I also think it’s interesting that when everything is moving online (Google Docs, etc), there are still large speed advantages to have a local application. And extensible browsers such as Firefox that allow these extensions that can speed up online applications will be very important in the future. You just have to make sure that your browser won’t slow down with many add-ons installed.