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Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn

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Review by Keith from Belgium
by Keith from Belgium, 7 years ago
**UPDATE** Two years now, and I remain hugely impressed by this extension. It is one of the best and most useful tools I have on my computer. Certainly a great improvement on the native FF bookmarks.

Two years ago, there were one or two annoying bugs with this extension (inevitable when it is a one-person development). But one by one, they have been ironed out and are now no longer there!

Added to that, there have been constant improvements, thanks to the developer's openness to all suggestions from users. Most of all, I am highly impressed by his polite and civil attitude to all and everyone. To see this, go to all the one-star reviews (currently 6) and see how he remains civil and friendly to the severest of critics. I take my hat off to this gentleman — I don't think I could display the same level of patience and civility.

Thanks greatly 😄 !

**EDIT** And thanks to the developer for your rapid response to my review :-) In fact, I was just having a problem with a bookmark that would not delete and would not sync to FF bookmarks. Your hint about the "Reload from FF API" button proved to be the solution to that problem! By refreshing the BSP2 bookmark list, it cleared that problematic bookmark. Also thanks for your point about privacy and cookies. That has led me to uncheck the option I had previously checked.

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I really, really like this add-on which I discovered yesterday.

I depend on my Firefox bookmarks and now I can do what I couldn't previously do in Firefox:
1. Search for a bookmark folder
2. Search for a bookmark and INSTANTLY see which folder it is in (this is also a way for me to find other similar bookmarks by locating their folder)
3. The above point is particularly useful for many of my bookmarks which unfortunately don't show a blue star in the navigation bar (an FF bug?). That makes it virtually impossible for me to find their folder without this excellent add-on (I have about 6500 bookmarks so you can well imagine the problem!)

What is more, Bookmarks Search Plus seems to auto-sync with Firefox Bookmarks (presumably, this will be because they are both using the same bookmarks list?).

Doubtless, I will go on to discover other useful features of this add-on, but the above-mentioned already fulfil key functions I need, that are lacking in Firefox's otherwise (for me) excellent bookmarks.

Thanks to the developer for an excellent tool!!

And by the way, for the previous reviewer, I think you are wrong about favicons. I had a similar problem, and so went to the add-ons page, clicked the Options button for Bookmarks Search Plus, and ticked "Include cookies to increase background favicon retrieval success rate" (this is right at the bottom of its Options page) and that seemed to do the trick for me. Hope that helps!

Developer response

posted 7 years ago
Hello Keith, thank you for the message.

Yes BSP2 is getting notified by FF each time something is changing in bookmarks. So this is auto-syncing, and the FF bookmark list is the unique source. It can happen in some conditions (like disabling the addon for some time) that the sync is lost, hence the "Reload from FF API" button in the options page.

And yes favicon are fetched. That does not start immediately on first install in order to let FF stabilize first.
Then the option you mention increases the number of favicon succesfully fetched. I created that option and set it to false by default for people who do care about privacy and cookies.
271 reviews
  • by Firefox user 19487299, a month ago
  • by Jean-Ricky, 2 months ago
    Have been using Bookmark Commander as a replacement of BSP for a long time but realized today that the sort feature did not work anymore, and wonder if the plugin is still maintained... So, I searched for another replacement and found BSP2 : Great ! Thanks
    1 remark + 1 suggestion however

    Remark about theme handling
    I use the "System theme - auto" - a dark one, but have to UNCHECK the "Match active FF theme color" option to actually get something close to what is expected : background color is not the same but still dark ; more annoying : the search input field and selected folder/bookmark backgrounds are not dark but light - as the text.
    However, I noticed that a bug had been reported recently on GitHub, learned there that the 'culprit' was FF since last upgrade : "API is not anymore returning the proper colors related to the current theme". So, wait & see...

    Suggestion : additional shortcut to open BSP2 in a tab ?...
    To like - or not, side panels : a matter of taste ;-)

    Developer response

    posted 2 months ago
    Hello Jean-Ricky, yes, as you say, this is a known regression introduced by Firefox 146.0 :-(
    This is discussed here https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/344 as you highlight.
    It seems that a hardcoded workaround will be needed until Firefox fixes the regression or provides a better function on its API. I should provide that next week-end, as I am currently travelling.

    For your suggestion, would you mind adding it as an enhancement request on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/, so that I can track it there ?

    Thank you, aaFn.

    --------------------- Edit on 22/12/2025 ---------------------
    Hello , I found a way to not "hardcode too much" by referring to FF internal CSS variables.
    In addition, this is improving the handling of when the Theme is "System default", and the system theme is in dark mode.

    This is in 2.0.137, published now, all should be fine.
    Let me know if any problem, thank you, aaFn.
  • by JOR, 3 months ago
    Great add-on. Cannot recommend it enough. Better than the native Firefox's browser context however lately it has been messing up and gives a "Wait background load" message. I've read previous reviews & tried messing with settings but none have resolved this current issue. Idk if it may be a recent Firefox api issue that has been resolved but I hope this can be fixed with an update. Great Add-on highly recommend.

    Developer response

    posted 3 months ago
    Hello Jor, thank you for your comment. The "Wait background load" message appears during the time the panel part waits for answer from the background part of the add-on, at Firefow start up.
    This is usually a symptom of Firefox taking time to load and to fully start, or slowly answering the BSP2 background task request to get the last version of bookmarks if you enabled the option to retrieve it on each restart.
    This can often happen if you have many windows and many tabs that Firefox reopens at each restart.

    If you want to get more details, there are some traces on start that we can activate, see BSP2 wiki https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki. You can also open an issue there if needed that we investigate.
  • by Firefox user 13339547, 5 months ago
    I love this add-on, I have more than 5000 bookmarks and it really helps! But I've had one problem since the beginning: in the sidebar, you can display the bookmarks as FF bookmarks or as Bookmarksearch Bookmarks. When I delete bookmarks, they often disappear from the FF display but are still there in the Bookmarksearch display. They can no longer be deleted with a right-click. Restarting everything is futile. I have FF 115.27.0esr.

    Is it possible to have your history automatically deleted when you close Firefox? You can set the storage period to a minimum of one day.


    Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

    Developer response

    posted 5 months ago
    Hello, when the problem happens, you can go to the BSP2 options and:
    - either press the "Reload all bookmarks from FF now" button to force re-synchronization
    - or enable the following option "Revert to old behavior of loading full bookmark tree from Firefox API at each restart", which will force that reload each time (but will slow down the add-on start).

    This should help, else let me know.
  • by Firefox user 19166001, 7 months ago
  • by Angeline, 8 months ago
    Simple.. Fast for manage bookmark
  • by sjapartments, 8 months ago
    The extension works as expected. But when using Edge to import my Firefox bookmarks into Edge, many bookmarks do not get imported. Could this be because I used "Bookmarks search Plus 2" my Firefox bookmarks into multiple folder levels?

    Developer response

    posted 8 months ago
    Hello sjapartments, no, the bookmarks created through BSP2 are fully standard, they are created using the Firefox API, so they are created by Firefox itself, and they do not differ from when they are created from the native bookmark sidebar.
    There must be something else.
    Maybe Edge has a bug in importing bookmarks from Firefox ? Cf. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/unable-to-import-bookmarks-favorites-from-firefox/539ce5d5-1e8a-4ea6-bc92-a6808de6a19d, you do not seem to be alone having problems
  • by Firefox user 18954770, 10 months ago
    Brilliant. This is what Firefox built-in bookmark management should provide, but Firefox deleted that good functionality from the codebase about 15 years ago and have never seen the need for bookmark management since. This developer has done an excellent job in fulfilling a need.
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  • by vlad a, a year ago
    Thank you for continuing to support this extension!
    My access to GitHub doesn’t work, hope you don’t mind my asking here:
    (FireFox on Macbook)
    • There is a delay of about 1 second when drag-n-dropping a link into a folder.
    • Also, after “New Folder”, the first attempt at d&d’ing an existing Bookmark into it always fails and sometimes(?) calls up the link in the active tab.
    • On “Bookmark Tab(s) Here”, when saving a bookmark into a new folder (ctrl-right click), the folder name is limited to 30 characters, whereas “New folder…” does not have this limit. For now, the workaround is to use the “Properties” submenu to change to a longer name. You told me (quite:) a while ago it would be easy to discard that limit, as I think you did for “New Folder…”. Could you please increase/discard this limit too?

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hello @vlad, indeed it would be easier to continue the conversation on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, but let's see how far we can go here.

    First, I do not have a Macbook, so I rely on a virtual MacOS in a VM, that might introduce differences.
    Second, my MacOS VM is on Monterey 12.2.1, that might also be a difference with you.

    Anyway, based on FF 129.0.1, and on BSP2 v2.0.129, I am not able to reproduce any of the 3 symptoms you mention:
    - d&d of links or tabs or existing bookmarks in a folder, new or existing, is immediate, and no error on my side
    - the second symptom makes me think of a regression I fixed in 2.0.129, can you make sure that you have the latest BSP2 version ?
    - on the third, I must say I am puzzled .. the right click menu [not Ctrl-right click] has indeed "Bookmark Tab Here" [without the "(s)" part on "Tab", only one tab, the current one], but it does not ask for a folder name, it does not create one, and it has no limit to 30 characters on the folder name where the bookmark is created from the current tab, nor on the bookmark name itself. If you keep Ctrl pressed when clicking on the action, the properties menu opens on bookmark creation to ask you to modify the name, and here also, no 30 characters limit (and frankly, there was never such a limit in my code !).

    So net is that I am not able to reproduce the problems, or maybe I need a litte more precision, sorry to be slow if so.
  • by Firefox user 13385186, 2 years ago
    This is what Firefox's bookmark manager should've been. Love this addon
  • by daveyy foxx, 2 years ago
    "This add-on needs to:

    Read and modify bookmarks
    Read and modify browser settings
    Access browsing history
    Access browser tabs
    Access browsing history
    Store unlimited amount of client-side data
    Access your data for all websites"

    I'd say that's a bit much to ask for Simply being a bookmak search tool

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello @davey foxx, the need for each permission is explained here, in detail for each:
    https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki/Permissions-and-Privacy-policy

    In short, these are mostly due to shortcomings or limitations in Firefox, unfortunately
    (a number of them are depending on bugzilla's to be corrected so that I can drop the need for the authorization).
  • by RKN, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 15131334, 2 years ago
    excellent tool. gave it 4 stars but it's 4.99. that missing 0.01 point is for the icon that i find a bit unaesthetic and doesn't compliment the usefulness of this tool. may i suggest you change it to a more minimalitic design that matches the mozilla icons? hope you will consider, would definetly bring it to a flawless 5 stars for me. thank you for making this great little tool.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, thank you, any suggestion ? (if you can place that in https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues)
    My skills on icon design are not the best :-)
    The idea is to keep a reference / similarity to the FF bookmarks icon, with something showing a "plus", and easily distinguishable from the standard FF bookmarks icon.
  • by Laura, 2 years ago
    Thank you so much for making this, there's surprisingly little support for regex searching your bookmarks for some reason, which I would've thought a lot of people need/want to do. Handy little tool :)

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Welcome, and indeed, regex is quite useful. However, not so many people know how to use it, so I guess this is only for a fraction of users :-)
    Thank you, aaFn.
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  • by jm, 2 years ago
    Bravo !!! Job well done