<div>The number of Firefox users who use bookmarks is much larger than 5% and closer to Richard’s observations. The reasons Richard listed below are among the most frequently cited and observed.</div><div><br></div><div>Based on some of the previous user research we’ve conducted, this thread speaks to a more underlying behavior which is saving-data-for-later use. Bookmarks and tabs are one way that users save items for later but can be less-than-optimal for some purposes. Ways we have observed that bookmarks and tabs fall short:</div><div><ul><li>Sometime users simply want to save a specific piece of data on a page or a specific video,</li><li>Bookmarks are URL-based and can’t always recall transient, transaction-based data,</li><li>The content within bookmarks are not searchable for later recall.</li></ul><div>While in their current state they are limited to specific audiences, services such as Evernote and Pocket (or in some cases users saving items for later in Gmail) exist to fill an absence in functionality. Integrating this functionality into Firefox is a huge opportunity and could provide a great deal of cross-over benefits to users.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Here’s a blog post report on this topic:</div><div>https://blog.mozilla.org/ux/2012/10/save-for-later/</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Bill</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Bill Selman</div><div>Lead User Researcher</div><div>Mozilla Corporation</div><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Monday, June 2, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Richard Newman wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>This is definitely not a mainstream use case. I just saw a user study that claimed fewer than 5% of Firefox users save any bookmarks.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Telemetry-based estimates say it's closer to 40-50% for the user population as a whole.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd say we have a very partitioned user space:</div><div><br></div><div>* at least half our users don't use bookmarks at all.</div><div>* some have a small set that they visit frequently (probably another 20%),</div><div>* some treat bookmarks as a junk drawer ("I'll need this later")</div><div>* some are hoarders (6k bookmarks in Unsorted — 1 or 2%)</div><div>* and a tiny minority are organized hoarders (I've personally interacted with a number of users who had complex hierarchies of 10k+ bookmarks). Less than 1%.</div><div><br></div><div>I would agree that the number of users who bookmark expiring pages, and would benefit from special handling of these, is very small.</div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>firefox-dev mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:firefox-dev@mozilla.org">firefox-dev@mozilla.org</a></div><div><a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev">https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev</a></div></div></div></span>
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