Overview
I’ve never understood why Valve could not include bookmarks as a feature for their in-game Steam browser. I personally find bookmarks to be very useful to my in-game browsing experience, and in my case; to use them either for accessing tutorial guides, or for meta-gaming to access third party content-created software tools for some of the more complex games I play. One game in particular for example is Elite: Dangerous – where certain meta-data needs to be checked from different websites to assist me in obtaining more useful information and wherein I don’t have to totally leave the game when using the Steam interface. Moreover, I much prefer to access this kind of information inside the Steam browser as it gives me an added sense of immersion and continuity to playing the game without having to ALT-TAB out of it to use bookmarks with a desktop browser.So, for all you folks out there who are interested in making your own bookmarks, I’d like to share with you how I make my own, and I trust you guys find my method useful. 🙂
Making a home page with bookmarks
First it required me to create my very own personal steam group with one private forum page, and to then also create one private thread and post for it – so it remains personal to me – for my eyes only. Here’s the Steam page link [link] for creating a new group. I just followed the steps at the link for making a new group, and once done, I followed the new group’s instructions page for creating a private forum.
After I created my private forum post, I initially added to that post all the website URLs that I wanted to use as bookmarks for my games, I then saved the post contents and copied my post URL from the Steam address bar. Next, from my Steam profile page, I clicked on “Steam” > “settings” > “web browser” and then pasted the post-URL into my ‘home page’ box, then saved those settings.
Using the bookmarks in the Steam browser
Now each time I launch my Steam browser in-game, the homepage will always open in the first tab with my forum post and its bookmarks. From here onward I can click any one of my bookmark links and have it open into a new window. In addition to this, I can now continue to use my Steam browser to Google search for any other new gaming websites and then update my ‘bookmarks’ post by copying any new website URLs from my address bar into my new browser’s home page.
Here’s a screenshot of the homepage tab in my Steam Browser:
Note: in the above screenshot I’ve also included a ‘Notepad’ post just below my ‘bookmark’ post, as sometimes I find it useful to add reminder notes for certain games too.
And that’s it. I hope you find my guide useful.
ViolentStreak