Thread:Extension talk:Favorites/Purpose/reply

Not at all - this extension is meant to be completely separate from the watchlist and is designed to allow the end-user to be able to create a list of documents that they will access frequently. According to some, this functionality is unnecessary because it is included in your browser. However, in my environment, we have users who access our intranet through a virtual Citrix browser. In this case, the browser favorites are not persistent between sessions. Therefore, we had to come up with a different solution to allow these users to "bookmark" documents that they feel are important to them.

The watchlist serves its own purpose of notifying you of changes, but we didn't want to base the user's favorites on this list - we specifically wanted two separate lists. This is mostly because the admins didn't want a long list of favorites because of the various documents they are watching.