# Clicking outside of the bookmark modal will create the bookmark anyway

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**Category:** UX\
**Tags:** bookmarks\
**Created:** [April 6, 2022, 12:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-outside-of-the-bookmark-modal-will-create-the-bookmark-anyway/223487 "2022-04-06T12:20:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![martin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/martin/32/491371_2.png) [@martin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/martin)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-outside-of-the-bookmark-modal-will-create-the-bookmark-anyway/223487/13 "2022-04-07T03:14:17Z")

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Not a bug, this is intentional, and it has been from the very beginning of bookmarks. This is to remove friction from creating bookmarks and as Kris said:

> [@awesomerobot](#):
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> the idea was following Firefox’s bookmark modal as an example

Maybe I could see this as a user preference or something, but it has been this way for at least 2 years now without issue so I’d like to have more reports of it being a problem before we act on it.

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