Bookmarks
Given my browsing habits, and the haphazard way that I collect bookmarks, I'd like some more smarts from my browser. Ideally, I'd like my bookmarks "scored" (like my mail is in mutt) If I boomark a page more than once, then it should have a higher score than one that I've only bookmarked once.
If I visit a site that one of my bookmarks is on (not necessarily the bookmark itself) then that bookmark should have a higher score than a bookmark on a site that I seldom visit. Obviously, it should be possible to determine how long that score will last, possibly allowing it to "decay"
If I constantly keep typing the same URL into the URL bar, I want that bookmarked too. For example, I've not bookmarked "www.google.co.uk because I always type it. Finally, if I spend a lot of time reading pages on one site, it would be really useful if the browser could automatically create one bookmark that site for me, possibly using information that should already be exposed for accessibility purposes.
What am I whining for? There's nothing stopping me from trying to fit this to Mozilla except for an utter lack of free time....
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a quicker, dirtier solution might be to hack something like filterproxy ( http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net ). web proxies can serve a number of helpful purposes. you would need to setup your browsers to use the proxy. but it should be straightforward to adapt the code; making it output to a database every uri you visit (or just every uri that is also bookmarked), and keeping a tally of the number of visits so that it can add weight to sites you follow regularly. i prefer my bookmarks to be displayed in my browsers as an html page, generated from a script set as my homepage. if you can stomach that then you just need a bit of code to add/edit/remove bookmarks from the database.
further down the line you could write something to import those bookmarks into browser if that is still desirable.