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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.