Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
Review by miko
Rated 5 out of 5
by miko, 4 years agoNice extension. Just what I was looking for. Beforehand every time I tried to search firefox bookmarks firefox always froze without exception. This has been going on for years.
At first I Suspected malware. Ever since I installed this extension firefox has constantly been trying to connect to unsafe sites. Blocked by Bitdefender from connecting. I ran a malwares scan etc and nothing found. On a hunch I disabled this extension (as it was the last extension I installed) and these incursions have stopped.
Apparently according to the developer (from response from previous 1 star review )it is the extension going through and accessing favicons for each bookmark to and can be disabled. I have done that and problem solved.
At first I Suspected malware. Ever since I installed this extension firefox has constantly been trying to connect to unsafe sites. Blocked by Bitdefender from connecting. I ran a malwares scan etc and nothing found. On a hunch I disabled this extension (as it was the last extension I installed) and these incursions have stopped.
Apparently according to the developer (from response from previous 1 star review )it is the extension going through and accessing favicons for each bookmark to and can be disabled. I have done that and problem solved.
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello @miko, that is correct, and that will really be a relief when Mozilla will enable favicon access in Firefox API, cf. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315616 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411120, like Chrome is doing.
Please vote on those two bugs to raise their priority with the FF team !
When it's available, I will be able to drop the code for fetching the favicons :-)
Unsafe site messages are because you have bookmarked them, and so when BSP2 tries to retrieve the favicon from those sites, this creates the problem. When FF will make favicons available, that won't happen anymore. And meanwhile, the workaround is to disable favicon fetching as you have done, or to wait that BSP2 does all bookmarks, since this only happens one time, they are all cached by BSP2 after that.
Thank you, aaFn.
Please vote on those two bugs to raise their priority with the FF team !
When it's available, I will be able to drop the code for fetching the favicons :-)
Unsafe site messages are because you have bookmarked them, and so when BSP2 tries to retrieve the favicon from those sites, this creates the problem. When FF will make favicons available, that won't happen anymore. And meanwhile, the workaround is to disable favicon fetching as you have done, or to wait that BSP2 does all bookmarks, since this only happens one time, they are all cached by BSP2 after that.
Thank you, aaFn.