Suggestion: Bookmarks in Steam In-Game/Overlay Webbrowser OR tabs should save

[Dieter Durple]

Hey,

I don't know why this feature wasn't made yet but I would like to be able to make bookmarks in the Steam Overlay webbrowser. It's really annoying to type in the same URLs everytime you start a game. There should be some kind of bookmark menu or even a bookmark bar.

An other option would be that your open tabs are saved when you exit the web browser/game.
But I prefer the bookmarking option!

Would be great to get this feature soon because imo it's long overdue!

[Velcrosasquatch]

Bookmarking tool for Web Browser

I find myslef constantly refering to some sites for select games, if this has been suggested a hundred times over I apologize but it would be very helpful.

[Genesys]

Messaggio originale di Black Blade (Card idling):

I think will be better to post on the existing treads on the subject then make a new one

But those haven't gotten any traction...

[Tyler]

You can add bookmarks. Take 10 minutes if you only want a few, want a ♥♥♥♥ ton? Grab some coffee and take a seat.
The bookmarks will look like this: http://louisfortier.ca/upload/gw/steam_overlay_mod_final.jpg
1st go to your steam directory > Resource > layout > overlaydesktop.layout, and open as notepad.
2nd, in the controls paragraph paste this,
BookmarkID { controlname="URLLabel" labeltext="BookmarkName" urltext="http://your.url.com" style=sidemenu }
Example: http://i.imgur.com/LBX0wlI.png
3rd, change the bookmark id to something relevant, no spaces and replace "Bookmarkname" with what you want to appear as on the steam overlay (it can have spaces), and urltext to the URL of the website you want bookmarked.
Example: http://i.imgur.com/SJgpHeJ.png
4th scroll down tot he bottom, you should see "place { controls=blahblahblahblahblah" at the end of the quotes add the phrase you put when you replaced the bookmark ID (in example I would add a comma and put soundcloud, make sure you don't remove the quotes and the quotes are at the end)
Example: http://i.imgur.com/hUYkO2G.png

Hit save and tada! Once saved, close out of notepad then reopen the file just to insure its saved, if done correctly when you look in your steam overlay you should have more bookmarks.

Fairly simple process, if it doesn't work, you should have a file amed "overlaydesktop_lore.layout" open that and do the exact same thing as listed above, remember to remove it from the older file just incase.

[Scratch]

I just ended up appending ♥♥♥♥ to url.txt on the public folder

Means you can use them multiple times throughout the interface, and use shellcmds to open them

[jabadameh]

That's an awesome idea Tyler, thanks for the input it's a good workaround. However I was trying to get through to the Devs as many people want this, and it'd be so easy to impliment. Thanks again for your answer, I will be using that method.

[Tyler]

Messaggio originale di PwnSauce:

That's an awesome idea Tyler, thanks for the input it's a good workaround. However I was trying to get through to the Devs as many people want this, and it'd be so easy to impliment. Thanks again for your answer, I will be using that method.

Many people want it, but I doubt they would do it. Yes it's easy to implement but theres a million things that some are easy and some are more difficult to implement and they don't do it. I could suggest a way to counter smurfs in CSGO, 1 mac address per CSGO buy, you get banned for cheating, good. Yes, you can spoof mac address pretty easily but its more of a hassle they have to go through, sort of like last year how they made it so in order to add people/levelup/chat with anybody you had to spend $5 or more on steam that was to help prevent scammers. I mean I'm no tech genius, I'm young but I've been teaching myself enough code for the past few years that I could more then likely with a little help from google and a day or two of time have half these things going. Yeah it's a decent workaround but its super annoying to do, not to sure why they can't implement google chrome so I can sign in and share all my bookmarks...I have hundreds, cant implement them all by hand lol. Anyway, I'm rambling, my point of this was to let ya know not to waste to much time on it, they more then likely already know and they feel as if they have bigger issues to worry about.

[Kyouma]

MAC addresses are useless for security over the world wide web. It is impossible to find the MAC address of a client without being on the same network. Also if you're into tech things learn Python3, would take about 2 minutes if you knew a days worth of Python to convert Chrome bookmarks to any other format.

[Tyler]

So I could convert all my already saved bookmarks into the code needed then copy and paste within 2 minutes is what your saying? Neat, not sure what would happen, if it would run off the page or start a new line or what, thanks for the information.

[Crowsfoot]

For those with some technical know how, you can have your own personalised homepage which you can use to store all of your bookmarks. You can set it as your steam browser homepage https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_vR6kqw0-DYNFNTbWw5cldheGc/view?pref=2&pli=1

[Tyler]

Messaggio originale di El Muryañi:

For those with some technical know how, you can have your own personalised homepage which you can use to store all of your bookmarks. You can set it as your steam browser homepage https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_vR6kqw0-DYNFNTbWw5cldheGc/view?pref=2&pli=1

Neat, thanks. Don't really need to be tech savy, you gave us the step-by-step! Thanks again! =)

[Kuba_Q]

Messaggio originale di El Muryañi:

For those with some technical know how, you can have your own personalised homepage which you can use to store all of your bookmarks. You can set it as your steam browser homepage https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_vR6kqw0-DYNFNTbWw5cldheGc/view?pref=2&pli=1

Holy cow. That is some... nice guide.

But I don't really understand why do you overcomplicate things so much.

Here is much simpler solution:

1. Create a MS Word file "Bookmarks.doc" on your Google Drive (or other similar cloud service)
2. In the doc file save links to pages you wish to bookmark
3. Get a shareable link to the file
4. Set the shareble link as your new steam web browser home page
6. Enjoy

Of course you can use other file formats. But doc files provide "clickable" links too.

I have Google Drive app installed, so all I need to do later is to edit the bookmarks.doc and google will auto sync it -> thus my home page will update as well.

Easy?

[8-The-General-8]

Good..good, but I think an integrated bookmarking tool would have saved me a few bad buys.

I really hope they do this sometime soon.

[Haadvv]

Estoy aqui por la insignia de perfil :)

[Crowsfoot]

Messaggio originale di Jascha:

Messaggio originale di El Muryañi:

For those with some technical know how, you can have your own personalised homepage which you can use to store all of your bookmarks. You can set it as your steam browser homepage https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_vR6kqw0-DYNFNTbWw5cldheGc/view?pref=2&pli=1

Holy cow. That is some... nice guide.

But I don't really understand why do you overcomplicate things so much.

Here is much simpler solution:

1. Create a MS Word file "Bookmarks.doc" on your Google Drive (or other similar cloud service)
2. In the doc file save links to pages you wish to bookmark
3. Get a shareable link to the file
4. Set the shareble link as your new steam web browser home page
6. Enjoy

Of course you can use other file formats. But doc files provide "clickable" links too.

I have Google Drive app installed, so all I need to do later is to edit the bookmarks.doc and google will auto sync it -> thus my home page will update as well.

Easy?

A good idea for those that are happy to use google services. I know for me though I wanted something more comprehensive, configurable, and personal. That and I had a few friends that were really interested in the idea, I made the guide for them and modified it a bit and made it public xD

[Kuba_Q]

Well yeah, sure. If you want a really personalized homepage - your way is the way to go. But just for storing few links to some non-steam guides for the games I am currently playing? Too much work. And I don't mind google, not to mention that you can use any online cloud service as well.