As has already been mentioned by others, I'm far more likely to open the dev tools and actually inspect the calls that are going out to grab data - or to track what I'm doing.
As silly as this sounds, it's amazing how many people will open a web page with a huge amount of text and then spend copious amounts of time reading through the whole dang thing until they find what they're looking for. Years ago, an executive in my company was watching me look for info on a series of pages and he was amazed by my frequent use of CTRL-F to quickly hone in on the data I was looking for.
I often find myself needing to retrieve the plain-text value of a password that's been saved for me in Chrome. By default, the password field is always displayed with <input type="password"/>, which means that the "text" is obfuscated from me. So I inspect the <input> element, change it to <input type="text"/>, and I can grab the raw password value that's stored in my browser.
I'm also far more likely to use the dev tools to.... "borrow" any of the assets that are used to build the page.
For all of my frequently-visited bookmarks, I edit the bookmark so there's no text/title in them. In this way, my bookmarks bar just has a series of icons. This allows me to fit all of my most-used bookmarks in my bookmark bar, like so: dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...
The last one is really smart, I should try it out! Right now my bookmark bar is pretty full since I use labels, but this looks like a much better approach. And if it’s a website you don’t know the icon of, you probably don’t use it often enough for it to be there…
As has already been mentioned by others, I'm far more likely to open the dev tools and actually inspect the calls that are going out to grab data - or to track what I'm doing.
As silly as this sounds, it's amazing how many people will open a web page with a huge amount of text and then spend copious amounts of time reading through the whole dang thing until they find what they're looking for. Years ago, an executive in my company was watching me look for info on a series of pages and he was amazed by my frequent use of
CTRL-Fto quickly hone in on the data I was looking for.I often find myself needing to retrieve the plain-text value of a password that's been saved for me in Chrome. By default, the password field is always displayed with
<input type="password"/>, which means that the "text" is obfuscated from me. So I inspect the<input>element, change it to<input type="text"/>, and I can grab the raw password value that's stored in my browser.I'm also far more likely to use the dev tools to.... "borrow" any of the assets that are used to build the page.
For all of my frequently-visited bookmarks, I edit the bookmark so there's no text/title in them. In this way, my bookmarks bar just has a series of icons. This allows me to fit all of my most-used bookmarks in my bookmark bar, like so:
dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/up...
The last one is really smart, I should try it out! Right now my bookmark bar is pretty full since I use labels, but this looks like a much better approach. And if it’s a website you don’t know the icon of, you probably don’t use it often enough for it to be there…
Nice idea with Icons in bookmarks
I have done this for a few years with the bookmarks for sites I use often... And have so far been the only one of the people I have seen to do so.