Reviews for Bookmark Dupes
Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth
510 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by FlopP, 6 years agoSaved me hours of sorting after the xmarks sync bug that duplicated countless bookmarks.
Thank you! - Rated 4 out of 5by Korwin, 6 years agoFirefox 67.0a1, Windows 10. Нельзя выделить сразу все найденные результаты, приходиться выделять по одному. Пустые папки находит, закладки с одинаковыми URL тоже.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoThe first claim seems to be incorrect:
There is a button to select all bookmarks. Also many other combinations of bookmarks can be selected by just pressing a single button.
If these buttons should not work, please report a bug. - Rated 4 out of 5by Wireball, 6 years agoBookmark Dupes removed over thirteen thousand* duplicate bookmarks in about ten minutes. The multi-select is awesome. Remove all but the newest, for example.
My only regret is that it doesn't *seem* to support merging the contents of folders with the same names. After deleting empty folders, I have two hundred folders remaining with various different assortments of bookmarks in them, but most of the folder names are duplicated over five times :)
*-(Some people might be wondering how I ended up with so many duplicates to begin with. Xmarks and to a lesser extent Sync had some problems merging bookmark sets with large numbers of changes between different computers. A few browser crashes while syncing didn't help. That led to huge amounts of bookmark and folder duplication.)Developer response
posted 6 years ago> merging the contents of folders with the same names
Merging/Removing duplicate bookmark *folders* is IMHO a rather different task than removing bookmarks.
(Actually, I consider already the option to "move" instead of removing the bookmarks a questionable feature.) It would require a completely different UI.
Currently, it is not implemented, and I have neither plans nor time to implement it (if somebody really wants to implement it, please contact me by pm or on github.)
Concerning the bug that the moving does copying instead of moving: I cannot reproduce it.
Technically, it uses this function https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/move and if this does not do the claimed thing, I would say it is a firefox bug (which should be reported to firefox), or perhaps you have some strange folder which is e.g. immediately re-filled by some other extension or something similar I cannot reproduce.
But it seems that this part was removed from your comment, so perhaps you could not reproduce either.
If you can, please report details about the bug on github (or send me a pm). - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12773489, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14632191, 6 years agoDoes exactly what it says on the tin, very simple but extensible.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikson_KA, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jerry, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by harl windwolf, 6 years agoSimple & very useful. Particularly the regex/expert mode really helps (even with the prefab settings). The rather thorough description and the dev's responses show that he knows what he's doing (as can be expected from an experienced academic mathematician).
All the best to Mr. Väth. - Rated 5 out of 5by tehbilly, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 14322601, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14053648, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14614534, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by RoshGadol, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Diser, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14601871, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sergey, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14504057, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14583972, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by B Tang, 6 years agoUseful addon but would be even better if it had an option to chose which bookmark folders to check for duplicates / include only certain folders in the duplicate search.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 12753665, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by EricL, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13535060, 6 years ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Outlander1978, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sperling943, 6 years agoPerfect for removing duplicates and empty folders. Thank You so much for this extension I would love to give something back via IBAN or in some other way. Really solved all my bookmarks problems. Only small issue I found that not all empty folders were removed in one go. (I guess it does not remove folders with empty folders inside) Otherwise really just awesome extension. Thanks again!
Developer response
posted 6 years agoIndeed, a folder is not empty if it contains a folder (no matter whether the inner folder is empty).
Theoretically, one could list those "recursively empty" folders but in practice there are several problems with that: One would have to couple implicitly selections of folders to be deleted (which might be confusing), the order in which folders are deleted becomes less transparent, and last but not least, some people would like to keep the "outer" structure of folders.
Instead of presenting a more complicated/confusing user interface, it was therefore a design decision to just possibly require several "clean empty folder" steps: The maximal number of repetitions necessary is the length of the deepest path consisting only of empty folders. In practice this should be far less than 10.