Reviews for Bookmarks Organizer
Bookmarks Organizer by Sören Hentzschel
Response by Sören Hentzschel
Developer response
posted 20 days agoChecking bookmarks is the most important part of organizing them. Besides, that’s not the only feature, and more features will follow in the future. Regardless, the name shouldn’t play any role in the rating. The functionality is described in detail, so nobody can seriously claim to have installed the extension with false expectations—unless they installed it blindly, which they shouldn’t do.
Aside from the fact that bulk editing is available for clear-cut cases (redirects), any follow-up work on bookmarks flagged as broken MUST be done manually. Anything else would be grossly negligent on the extension’s part. By their very nature, these checks cannot always return the correct result. Sometimes web servers are configured in a way that makes checking impossible. Sometimes Firefox’s tracking protection blocks the request. Other causes include access restrictions on the website or an overloaded internet connection. I would argue that Bookmarks Organizer has one of the best if not the best broken bookmark checks implemented in any Firefox extension. And even this check cannot reliably determine every bookmark’s status in every case. That’s why disabling bulk editing for these cases is a deliberate decision.
For these reasons, I cannot understand such a poor rating at all. The extension does exactly what it is supposed to do and promises to do. No more, but no less either. And that is all it should be judged on. I wouldn’t go to BYD and tell them how bad their cars are because they don’t offer the same equipment as Mercedes. That would be complete nonsense.
Aside from the fact that bulk editing is available for clear-cut cases (redirects), any follow-up work on bookmarks flagged as broken MUST be done manually. Anything else would be grossly negligent on the extension’s part. By their very nature, these checks cannot always return the correct result. Sometimes web servers are configured in a way that makes checking impossible. Sometimes Firefox’s tracking protection blocks the request. Other causes include access restrictions on the website or an overloaded internet connection. I would argue that Bookmarks Organizer has one of the best if not the best broken bookmark checks implemented in any Firefox extension. And even this check cannot reliably determine every bookmark’s status in every case. That’s why disabling bulk editing for these cases is a deliberate decision.
For these reasons, I cannot understand such a poor rating at all. The extension does exactly what it is supposed to do and promises to do. No more, but no less either. And that is all it should be judged on. I wouldn’t go to BYD and tell them how bad their cars are because they don’t offer the same equipment as Mercedes. That would be complete nonsense.