The mess that is 'default browser'

[rikona]

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 19:05:24 +0000
Ian Bruntlett <ian.bruntlett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Rikona,
> 
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 at 18:53, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> > :-) We each find ways that work well for us and this may be a bit
> > different from what many folks do. But, I'm always interested in
> > ways to deal with lots of stuff, so it's nice to hear how others do
> > it. 
> 
> At most, I have one instance of Firefox, with up to 4 tabs open. All
> running on a ThinkPad T420 with 8GiB RAM.
> 
> I keep track of technical things in a directory tree and I note the
> URLs in HTML files. If I make note of a manual or guide, I tend to
> keep a downloaded copy of the manual/glide.
> 
> Here are the stats on my key HTML files...
> $ wc -l *.html
>     28 index.html
>   2213 tm-index.html
>    497 tm-index-linux.html
>   2738 total

Thanks for the ideas! Is there an advantage in keeping them as HTML
files? I tend to keep some URLs as temporary text during some research,
and it's handy. And I store LOTS of downloaded info in directory trees
as well. I use recoll to search that downloaded stuff - great pgm.

Rik