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Looking at processes running under Windows, I see that when a Maxthon browser starts up and tries to process my bookmarks folders, its memory footprint blows through 90 MB. Meanwhile IE8 opens 3 processes, each near the 30 MB mark. But when I go to bookmark something for the first time in an IE8 session, then comes the big bite: only this time it is out of my workday as I wait for my bookmarks to load. At least with IE8 I can hop over into another session.

Online bookmark services do not yet seem to be the answer (and Maxthon eventually reports that I exceed their bookmarks limit) - at least not from the time I have put into Delicious and other such offering - even those revamped for Firefox.

So I will just have to try to do better with a Curl-based or a Rebol-based or an ICON-based browser (even Tcl/Tk may be in the running for this one). When I get a prototype ready, I’ll post a note. And hope that you bookmark it …

Over at LogiqueWerks Curl SSB pages there is a demo of browser pages running without the ability to swipe text and mail it anywhere. Internet Explorer 8 comes with accelerator tools for Evernote and such which are useful - but they are not always appropriate for pages with sensitive information.
The page at LW allows you to open a Curl applet page which remains in communication with the browser but has no text selection or context popup menus enabled.
The “Examples” button on that page opens in that same desktop window; closing the window returns you to your web page as does using the hyperlinks on the Curl applet pages.
Other examples can be found elsewhere in the LogiqueWerks pages. All require download of the Curl RTE