Pins

A Pin is a named passage saved under a bookmark. Opening it takes you back to that page and marks where the passage starts.

Select text on a page, right-click it, and choose Save Pin. Keep the suggested name, taken from the text you selected, or type your own, then choose Save Pin. If the page isn’t bookmarked yet, Bigfoot bookmarks it at the same time. Cancel saves nothing.

On ordinary webpages in Regular browsing. You can’t save a Pin in Private browsing, in text you’re editing on a page, or inside a frame embedded in a page.

Up to 20 on one bookmark and 200 in all.

In Bookmarks. Turn on Show Pins at the bottom of Bookmarks, then expand a bookmark to list its Pins.

Bigfoot opens the bookmarked page, using a tab that already shows that exact address when there is one. When the page has loaded, it scrolls to the passage and puts a pin marker where the passage starts. The page’s text isn’t highlighted or changed.

In Bookmarks, click the delete button on the Pin’s row. Deleting a bookmark also deletes its Pins.

You can open and delete Pins you already have, but you can’t save new ones there.

Bigfoot looks for the passage even if it has moved or been edited. If it finds only a close match, it still marks it and says This page has changed — showing the closest match. A close match can be wrong, so check the passage.

If the passage was deleted, Bigfoot scrolls to where it was without a marker. If it can’t find the text, it may show the section or landmark the passage was in, or roughly where it was, and tells you which. If the text now appears in more than one place, Bigfoot doesn’t guess and says so instead.