Hello everyone, first time posting on this subreddit.
So currently I have over 200,000 bookmarks on my Windows laptop split across these browsers - Chrome, Brave, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Vivaldi and Chrome Beta (Chrome Dev seems to be quite unstable).
Due to privacy and security reasons, I DON’T want to use ANY online/cloud service, and I use all browsers on my laptop SIGNED OUT so there is NO online/cloud syncing, NO multiple profiles, and ALL the bookmarks are stored LOCALLY on the laptop’s hard drive. I also keep exporting them from time-to-time in HTML formats as backups.
I have NO duplicates or waste bookmarks, they are well organized into dozens of different folders and it has been my habit to collect various links, websites and URLs since nearly a decade now.
Genuinely curious about whether or not this process can scale to potentially MILLIONS of bookmarks in the future, because its part of my habit to store bookmarks while browsing the web.
over 200,000 bookmarks
You’re a mad mad, I love it. In answer to your question yes probably, most browsers aren’t storing your bookmarks in ram at all times and even a 10 million line txt file isn’t so large so you could get away with it if they did. The only lag you’re going to see will be very slight when you first load the browser, if you’re running a half decent ssd this wont be a problem at all.
I say this without knowing if there is browsers that hardcoded a limit for how many you can have but I doubt they did, not expecting people to have as many as you never mind millions.
You mention privacy in not uploading/syncing your bookmark but assuming you’re not doing anything illegal and the majority aren’t behind login/paywalls then that list of urls is valuable to projects like ArchiveTeams URLs effort for wayback ingest.
Why not dump all in an excel? You can create easily filters to tag them. You could also let websites get pinged (and if dead you know it). 200.000 records even millions while it’s not a DB, isn’t a problem.
Thought about this, but while browsing the web its not possible to know whether or not a link is backed up light? Also, an inbuilt bookmark manager in the web browser is very, very convenient in terms of backing up links, being able to identify them via favicons, being able to know which link is backed up by just looking at the ‘highlighted’ star or bookmark icon, etc.