I want to bookmark a specific point on a page.

Edict

I currently use Firefox as my web browser, but I am willing to switch if need be. Is there a way to mark a specific point on a webpage so that when I choose my bookmark link I am taken directly to that spot. Currently when I bookmark a page I am taken to the top of the page when I choose to return. I am reading a page that if printed would be 50+ pages, so I would like to be able to mark my spot at say page 12 and return later.

urahonky

I've not heard of being able to do that, but have you tried copying all the information into a word document? Then you can delete up to what you've read or mark your spot with something.

Desert_Eagle25

urahonky wrote: »

I've not heard of being able to do that, but have you tried copying all the information into a word document? Then you can delete up to what you've read or mark your spot with something.

This. Atleast with a word document you have ways of marking and highlighting.

Edict

Yeah, I could do that. never thought of it actually. What I was doing is going through a walkthrough and have to scroll down every time I decide to play and read it. I don't see why I couldn't just copy and then delete it as I work my way through it.

ArcSyn

Sites have the ability to have their own bookmarks for significant spots in the page, yet many walkthroughs do not take advantage of this. So very annoying.

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?p=7084867#post7084867

For example, the part after # is the bookmark. You can bookmark a page with a bookmark, but unless it has one, you can't really make your own.

japan

In Opera, you can use File-> Sessions-> Save This Session

That saves all the windows and tabs that you currently have open, and when you load the session again it opens them exactly as they were (so if you'd scrolled halfway down a page that's where it'll reopen). You can even set it so that it automatically saves the session when you close the browser, and reloads it next time you start it up (Tools -> Preferences -> General -> Startup -> Continue From Last Time).

ArcSyn

japan wrote: »

In Opera, you can use File-> Sessions-> Save This Session

That saves all the windows and tabs that you currently have open, and when you load the session again it opens them exactly as they were (so if you'd scrolled halfway down a page that's where it'll reopen). You can even set it so that it automatically saves the session when you close the browser, and reloads it next time you start it up (Tools -> Preferences -> General -> Startup -> Continue From Last Time).

Firefox, Chrome, and I believe IE8 also have this capability, but it's not really bookmarking, but rather keeping your tabs memorized. Good idea for a stop-gap solution unless you do a lot of browsing between gaming sessions that you use the walkthrough for.

sushiboy

if its that big of a deal and you dont want to switch browsers, you could ask the webmaster very nicely to put an anchor on the page in the location you want.

japan

ArcSyn wrote: »

japan wrote: »

In Opera, you can use File-> Sessions-> Save This Session

That saves all the windows and tabs that you currently have open, and when you load the session again it opens them exactly as they were (so if you'd scrolled halfway down a page that's where it'll reopen). You can even set it so that it automatically saves the session when you close the browser, and reloads it next time you start it up (Tools -> Preferences -> General -> Startup -> Continue From Last Time).

Firefox, Chrome, and I believe IE8 also have this capability, but it's not really bookmarking, but rather keeping your tabs memorized. Good idea for a stop-gap solution unless you do a lot of browsing between gaming sessions that you use the walkthrough for.

It sort of is bookmarking, you just have to pick the one that you want from the saved sessions menu instead of the bookmarks menu. As long as you explicitly save the session it doesn't matter how much browsing you do afterwards, you'll always be able to return to to the same point in the walkthrough by loading the session again.

Plus, if the OP uses Firefox for his general browsing, it might be an idea to open the walkthrough in Opera and use it for that purpose alone, which would make the "continue from last time" feature the most useful.