Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
Response by aaFn
Developer response
posted 5 years agoHello DanC.
yes I too was missing the old Opera function which they removed. I was then using Firefox and the first version of this add-on by Alice0775, before Firefox switched to Web Extensions in FF57 and deactivated XUL for add-ons, which broke the that add-on. So I decided to give a second birth to it (hence the "2"), however there are several restrictions as documented on the add-on description page.
One is that Firefox doesn't give us access to Tags, Keywords, Descriptions .. see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916
Some others are Firefox API slowness when add-on use some functions .. which forced me to implement caching techniques and other features to be able to handle properly large number of bookmarks of some users (up to 80000 bookmarks for now).
And last is that because XUL is not authorized anymore, BSP2 cannot integrate with Firefox UI, it has to provide its own UI, and so this is why you have 2 trees.
Because of that, there are opportunities for Firefox and BSP2 cache to get desynchronized.
Rare, but can happen, especially when FF doesn't terminate well. For such cases, you will find a "Reload all bookmarks from FF now" button in the options page. I advise that in your case, you press it to resync things.
If you're worried about such desynchronization events more than slowness, or if you are fortunate to not have a lot of bookmarks and then things are quick enough, you can also enable the option "Revert to old behavior of loading full bookmark tree from Firefox API at each restart". BSP2 will be slowlier at each restart, but there won't be any desynchronization.
i hope this helps, else please open an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues. Thanks, aaFn.
yes I too was missing the old Opera function which they removed. I was then using Firefox and the first version of this add-on by Alice0775, before Firefox switched to Web Extensions in FF57 and deactivated XUL for add-ons, which broke the that add-on. So I decided to give a second birth to it (hence the "2"), however there are several restrictions as documented on the add-on description page.
One is that Firefox doesn't give us access to Tags, Keywords, Descriptions .. see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916
Some others are Firefox API slowness when add-on use some functions .. which forced me to implement caching techniques and other features to be able to handle properly large number of bookmarks of some users (up to 80000 bookmarks for now).
And last is that because XUL is not authorized anymore, BSP2 cannot integrate with Firefox UI, it has to provide its own UI, and so this is why you have 2 trees.
Because of that, there are opportunities for Firefox and BSP2 cache to get desynchronized.
Rare, but can happen, especially when FF doesn't terminate well. For such cases, you will find a "Reload all bookmarks from FF now" button in the options page. I advise that in your case, you press it to resync things.
If you're worried about such desynchronization events more than slowness, or if you are fortunate to not have a lot of bookmarks and then things are quick enough, you can also enable the option "Revert to old behavior of loading full bookmark tree from Firefox API at each restart". BSP2 will be slowlier at each restart, but there won't be any desynchronization.
i hope this helps, else please open an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues. Thanks, aaFn.
259 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hollytryx, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vladimir1973, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12912105, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by vlad a, 4 months agoThank 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 4 months agoHello @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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13385186, 5 months agoThis is what Firefox's bookmark manager should've been. Love this addon
- Rated 2 out of 5by daveyy foxx, 6 months 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 toolDeveloper response
posted 6 months agoHello @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). - Rated 5 out of 5by RKN, 7 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15131334, 7 months agoexcellent 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 7 months agoHello, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Laura, 10 months agoThank 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 10 months agoWelcome, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by piecevcake, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13326192, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Blackbird, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18212161, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16238091, a year agoTried to use it and all I got was "Wait background load" I cannot even uninstall it from Firefox! I get a gray box with a dot in the center of it on the Firefox Add-ons page.
Developer response
posted a year agoHello, sorry for the problem, and strange that you cannot even uninstall it, that would suggest a Firefox problem maybe.
Would you mind opening an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, with a screenshot of the Firefox Add-ons page, and also indicating to me which version of Firefox this is, on which OS ?
Also, could I ask you to go to the Options page of the add-on, activate the Traces option, and then would you agree applying this procedure https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki#debugging-bsp2--reporting-errors and report me the errors or messages that you see ?
Thank you in advance, and again sorry for the inconvenience, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Stromfeldt, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nur, a year agoIndispensable add-on.
One small problem when I (mistakenly) open two Properties dialogs for the same bookmark.
1. Create a bookmark "testA" and press Save.
2. Right-click the bookmark "testA" and open Properties. Let's call this dialog2.
3. Right-click the bookmark "testA" again and open Properties. Let's call this dialog3.
4. Edit the title of dialog3 to "testB" and Save. The bookmark correctly changes to "testB".
5. Switch the focus to dialog2.
6. Don't edit dialog2 and just press its Cancel or X button. It will close.
7. But then, the bookmark automatically changes its title back to "testA".
I expect it to keep "testB", because I pressed Cancel for dialog2.
(Reply to Developer response):
Yes, limiting property windows to single instances sounds better.
Additional note. I called it a "dialog", but unlike modal dialogs, it is actually a non-modal window, and this is very convenient because I can copy and paste multiple text and URL from the browser's webpage into the properies, and vice versa. I can even swap multiple portions between two bookmarks. So keep it non-modal, if possible.
(Reply to update 05/11/2023)
Dialog in 2.0.119 works as expected.
I also add my thanks for your implementing the Undo feature.Developer response
posted a year agoHello, thank you.
I guess I see in fact 2 changes to do here:
- when opening properties, if already open, re-focus on the already open one instead of opening a second one (I will verify this is possible)
- currently, when changing the value of a field in the property window, the bookmark value is immediately changed = this was the old behavior of FF when I created the add-on some years ago, a bit strange but this is what it was .. and so I mimicked it .. and so Cancel is restoring the old values when opening the property window.
However, this behavior now changed in FF, so I will look at going back to a more natural flow, where values are only changed when pressing "Save" (and so Cancel should do nothing, as the name says).
============ update 05/11/2023 ===========
Both changes made in 2.0.119 which is out now. Let me know on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues if any problem.
And yes, this is non modal. And by the way, it can't be modal, as the FF Web extension (add-ons) API does not allow modal windows as of today, to my knowledge.
Thank you, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by akasico1, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12824412, a year agoGoergeous tool! Been looking for regex and some "show-my-bookmark-in-its-tree-location" functionality. And 'bmsp2' has both. Thank you very much, Chris
- Rated 5 out of 5by poisonu, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by overtomanu, a year ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by fireman0909, 2 years agoThere is a problem with the way the favicon is obtained.
First, open a bookmark that has already acquired a favicon.
Then open another bookmark in the same tab before the page finishes loading.
Then the acquired favicon disappears.
Please fix this problem.
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The above issue seems to have been resolved. thank you.
However, there was another problem.
Unable to open external file bookmarks.
for example,
file:///D:/Download/WebScrapBook/data/20230405010758065/index.html
I can't open bookmarks starting with 'file:///' like this.
Please fix it.Developer response
posted 2 years agoHello @fireman0909, yes, I fixed the issue as I initially answered to your comment I believe (but this edit doesn't show anymore, not sure why).
On the second problem you mention, this is because of Firefox security policy = it doesn't allow add-ons to open such URLs, as I documented in the Limitations section of the add-on. This cannot be changed.
Thank you, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Cr8zy_Ivan, 2 years agoThe Firefox Bookmark Sidebar already kicks butt. This Add-On takes it to a whole new level. I am seriously impressed (🡰 Initial Review - 2023-03-28).
Edit (2023-07-27). After 4 months of use now, I just keep getting blown away by how amazing this Add-On is. More often than not in reviews, through time, ratings go down. I believe this is the first time I've actively come back to a review to praise it even more. If I could give a 6 star rating, I would. Amazing job aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14360676, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13366226, 2 years ago