It's amazing how easy it is to overlook great features of programs that you use every day.
Take Firefox bookmarks.
The interface which opens when you select Bookmarks | Add Bookmarks isn't perfect but hidden (at least to me) inside each folder of Bookmarks you create is an option "Open in Tabs". What that does is to open a new Firefox window and, assuming you are connected to the Internet, a tab is automatically created for every bookmark in that folder and the linked page is automatically downloaded.
What this allows you to do is save a series of bookmarks in a working folder for a project (there is a Bookmarks | Add Bookmarks | Bookmark all tabs in a folder option to achieve that easily) and then use the Open in Tabs option in that working folder to go back to the same set of Web pages that you were working on.
A really, really nice touch. Well done to whoever thought of that one!
Posted by Andrew Watt at March 20, 2004 10:09 AM