Random Bookmark by Steven Aleong

4.4 Stars out of 5

1 review

Rated 2 out of 5
by ConQ, 3 years ago
The 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 ago
That'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.