Reviews for Random Bookmark
Random Bookmark by Steven Aleong
Review by irripod
Rated 5 out of 5
by irripod , 7 years ago̶T̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶v̶e̶r̶y̶ ̶n̶e̶e̶d̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶b̶u̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶h̶a̶s̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶b̶u̶g̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶o̶p̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶k̶e̶e̶p̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶a̶p̶p̶e̶a̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ̶ ̶I̶ ̶o̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶a̶d̶d̶-̶o̶n̶s̶ ̶m̶a̶n̶a̶g̶e̶r̶.̶ ̶S̶o̶,̶ ̶w̶h̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶ ̶w̶o̶r̶k̶s̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶e̶ ̶a̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶g̶e̶n̶e̶r̶a̶l̶ ̶r̶a̶n̶d̶o̶m̶i̶z̶e̶r̶,̶ ̶f̶o̶l̶d̶e̶r̶ ̶p̶i̶c̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶s̶s̶i̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶f̶o̶r̶ ̶m̶e̶.̶
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̶P̶.̶S̶.̶ ̶I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶F̶F̶ ̶Q̶u̶a̶n̶t̶u̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶k̶e̶e̶p̶s̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶a̶p̶p̶e̶a̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶'̶R̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶'̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶e̶.̶
IT WORKS GREAT NOW. THANK YOU!
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̶P̶.̶S̶.̶ ̶I̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶F̶F̶ ̶Q̶u̶a̶n̶t̶u̶m̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶.̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶p̶a̶r̶t̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶k̶e̶e̶p̶s̶ ̶d̶i̶s̶a̶p̶p̶e̶a̶r̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶i̶s̶ ̶a̶l̶l̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶c̶o̶m̶e̶s̶ ̶a̶f̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶'̶R̶a̶t̶i̶n̶g̶'̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶e̶.̶
IT WORKS GREAT NOW. THANK YOU!
Developer response
posted 7 years agoHi irripod, which version of firefox are you using? I've only tested with Firefox Quantum (57) and i'm currently unable to reproduce what you're describing.
Edit: I have no clue how else to contact you but i've updated it in 1.0.2 so that the options page is in its own window now. Hopefully it works for you now.
Edit: I have no clue how else to contact you but i've updated it in 1.0.2 so that the options page is in its own window now. Hopefully it works for you now.
25 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Janis, 10 days agoI absolutely love this add-on! :) Easy to use, easy to manage, and works perfectly.
But... there is one small thing I have come across lately, which I do not know how to solve.
Perhaps there is something in the settings I have missed.
Currently I have quite a lot of bookmarks, around 56k. And every time I add one more while I am browsing online content, then I assume it is a background process that kicks in, which loads/syncs all bookmark information with this add-on data. And that immediately halts all browsing in FF as no other tabs, that are being opened at that exact time (it usually takes roughly one minute or bit more to complete), respond and loading hourglass is being shown till the moment add-on sync process ends.
If there is or would be an option to disable instant bookmark sync as soon as new bookmark is added, that would be great.Developer response
posted 10 days agoEdit: When v2.2.7 is released, please review the options page and you'll see a section that will let you disable the automatic group refresh. Please check that and it won't do the automatic reshuffling/refreshing.
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Hi Janis, you're not the first one to complain about how it re-shuffles after every time one bookmark is added/updated/deleted.
I'll review and see what I can come up with.
and holy smoly that's a lotta bookmarks! I can definitely see how that's frustrating. - Rated 4 out of 5by David Pillath, 20 days agoHi Steven, this used to be working great until a few days ago. Right clicking the toolbar shortcut in Firefox no longer brings me your menu or allows me to go to the app's special options. I have no way of picking favorite lists. Clicking the button gives me an error message 90% of the time now. Reinstalling the app or clearing data doesn't help. Thanks for any insight. Edit: Thanks for the help. I don't know if I wasn't seeing it before, but those options are all back but in a different place. (Random bookmark options are in a help dropdown and lists are at the top)
Developer response
posted 20 days agoHi David, that's not good, were you by chance on a linux ubuntu version of firefox? I was running into an issue where it couldn't complete the initialization code i had because of something that only affected that.
Please try updating to 2.2.6 the latest version and trying that if you haven't already.
If it's not that, could you please email me directly at [stevenaleong at outlook dot com] as I can't reply more than once on here in these reviews or if you happen to have a github account, please create an issue on there. - Rated 5 out of 5by Lew Wadoo, 2 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14078353, 2 years agoLets you choose specific folders to randomly choose from (so that way it's not just all bookmarks). It's working great so far, thanks so much for making this! My toddler likes to watch random cool music videos on my lap and this is a great way to do it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by shenlebantongying, 2 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by ConQ, 3 years agoThe add-on does what it should do, but somehow it appears that the addon has direct influence on the Windows Explorer in Windows 10, causing it to crash and restart on a regular, when changing from an active window of the explorer into a Firefox window. After deactivating the add-on, this issue doesn't seem to occur anymore.
Edit: All in all I have prolly several thousand bookmars. But I used the Addon only for a subfolder that contains about 600 bookmarks. Yes I found that weird too, that it affects the explorer. I wasn't so sure either if this is really caused by the addon, but it appears that way. Since I deactivated the addon, my Explorer doesn't crash anymore.Developer response
posted 3 years agoThat's not good. I haven't really tested with lots of bookmarks myself though, just curious, how many bookmarks do you have?
In earlier versions of the add-on, i was grabbing/loading all the bookmarks on each time you wanted a random bookmark but because I don't have 1000s of bookmarks, it wasn't ever an issue for me until someone pointed out it takes a while.
So the latest version will cache all your bookmarks on load so it doesn't have to do that and firefox most likely stores that using temp data.
Do find it really weird that it is affecting windows explorer though. I personally haven't run into this.
Sorry for the inconvenience though. - Rated 3 out of 5by cs1996, 3 years agoDoesn't seem to work on Firefox v93.0
Click the icon and nothing happens at all/Developer response
posted 3 years agoWeird, not sure why you're running into any issues, i'm also running ff v93.0, can you please try clearing out all plugin information by going to the add-on option page and then scroll to the very bottom and click on "clear all add-on data" and then try reinstalling the plugin please? - Rated 5 out of 5by Implausible Feloniousness, 3 years agoIt does everything I need when I want some random bookmarks to be opened.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15550166, 4 years agoThis add-on works great! Is there a way to have it choose a random bookmark as the homepage? I'd like to see a different bookmark every time I start Firefox.
Developer response
posted 3 years agoSorry, i never got a notification for this. I'll review the documentation and see if there's any way to do what you're asking. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12413881, 5 years agoSince some weeks it does not work anymore on a "normal" Firefox on Windows (I use the latest ff version 76.0.1). When I click on the random bookmark icon a popup opens, saying "Loading Your Bookmarks - Sorry, wait a moment until your bookmarks are preloaded". This message does not go away, even after deactivating and activating the plugin.
Update: With the newest version available (i have 2.0.9 installed), the plugin works again. Thank you for the fix!Developer response
posted 4 years agoSorry for the issue, i think i figured out what was wrong. Can you please give it a try again. - Rated 5 out of 5by dj, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Vedun, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15068670, 6 years agocould you please update it for it can use on android firefox ;_ ; i really want use it on phone firefox... but it doesn't work on mobile. i anytime appreciate your work thx reading ;)
Developer response
posted 6 years agoI'll look into rebuilding it when i get some time from the ground up. I want to optimize it.
Edit: I just reviewed the documentation on what I have access to and unfortunately, getting bookmarks is not supported on Firefox for Android. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15057378, 6 years agoThis add-on has some real potential for me, and may be just what I've been looking for. I just have a problem/question (or two).
Can I select a specific folder to choose from when I left click the Add-On icon from the toolbar?
I've gone into the Random Bookmark Settings, selected and saved a folder to choose from. Yet still, when I click on the Random Bookmark icon, the add-on seems to choose a bookmark from ALL of my bookmarks, instead of the folder I have chosen. Is this how it's intended to work?
It does limit it's choice when I right-click the folder, only choosing bookmarks from that folder, but when I click on the icon for the add-on, it chooses a bookmark from all of my bookmarks.
PS: Do you know of a way to launch the add-on from Windows desktop? It would be really sweet to have a shortcut on my desktop that would activate this add-on.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHrmmm I haven't run into any problems myself with it still choosing from all folders. I say just try saving the settings again and see if that works. It is supposed to only pick from your selected folders. If you have NO selected folders, it loads up all your bookmarks.
I do plan on rebuilding it eventually though to optimize it better. This was my first addon i've built.
I'll also have to look into launching an addon from the desktop, i've never tried that myself. Sorry. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15026272, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13522932, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14315013, 6 years agoGood add-on. Can you add a feature that allows the user to right-click on a particular directory (from the Bookmarks Toolbar) and then select "Open random bookmark from selected directory" -- then a random bookmark from the selected directory is opened in a new tab. This was previously a feature in this now-antiquated add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/random-bookmark/
Update: Thank you very much for updating the app. Can you add an additional feature that allows the user to right-click on a particular directory and open multiple bookmarks from that directory simultaneously? "Open 5 random bookmarks from this directory."Developer response
posted 6 years agoHello,
I have updated the plugin so you can right-click from the bookmarks now (not when in sidebar, browser/core limitations)
Regards,
Steven - Rated 5 out of 5by AnnanFay, 6 years ago~~It doesn't seem to work if you open a new tab. It will keep opening the new page in the old tab.~~
UPDATE: As the author explains in a reply you can change this behaviour in the settings.
I think the default settings are a bit weird. Of the three options it seems like the least intuitive setting.Developer response
posted 6 years agoHello,
There are options that you can set for the plugin.
The default is to open a new tab and keep using that tab.
If you want it to always open up in a new tab, you can change that in the options.
Regards,
Steven - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 14144323, 6 years agoNot works on Firefox 61.0 for Android. Bookmarks list is empty.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12775714, 7 years agoCan't thank the dev enough for this addon. Got all the features & options I need.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13837117, 7 years agoОчень мне необходимое расширение. Искал долго и рад что нашел!
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 13529255, 7 years agoGreat! Just what I was looking for, except, it takes too long in between clicks to load another random bookmark.
Like, I click once, wait ~5 seconds and only then it starts loading a bookmark...Developer response
posted 7 years agoI'll look into changing how I look up bookmarks. If you could let me know how many bookmarks you have, i can try and base my tests around that.
Thank you - Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 13505636, 7 years ago