Reviews for Bookmark Dupes
Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth
Response by Martin Väth
Developer response
posted a year ago> how to navigate around the complexity of this extension.
Do not enable "expert mode".
> It takes approximately 1.7 seconds to delete one single "dupes".
If it takes more than milliseconds (in average) to delete a bookmark, something is wrong on your system. It might be running out of memory. A more frequent cause for big latencies is that another tool is interfering, for instance another bookmark extension.
> Extention doesn't scan ALL your bookmarks (across different folders and subfolders) at once
This is incorrect. The name (path) of bookmarks is completely ignored for detecting duplicates (if expert mode is disabled).
> Even then, it's not detecting duplicate urls within the same folder (most of the time).
Two bookmarks are considered identical if their URL is *exactly* the same string. Only in expert mode, you can configure different rules, but this requires that you specify very precisely what you want to consider matching.
> It's overly complex and needs to be simplified
Specifying different rules than identical strings for URLs *is* a very complex problem and can find unexpected dupes especially for apparently simple rules. This lies in the nature of things. That's why "expert mode" is usually not recommended (unless you really understand regular expressions and carefully read the instructions).
Do not enable "expert mode".
> It takes approximately 1.7 seconds to delete one single "dupes".
If it takes more than milliseconds (in average) to delete a bookmark, something is wrong on your system. It might be running out of memory. A more frequent cause for big latencies is that another tool is interfering, for instance another bookmark extension.
> Extention doesn't scan ALL your bookmarks (across different folders and subfolders) at once
This is incorrect. The name (path) of bookmarks is completely ignored for detecting duplicates (if expert mode is disabled).
> Even then, it's not detecting duplicate urls within the same folder (most of the time).
Two bookmarks are considered identical if their URL is *exactly* the same string. Only in expert mode, you can configure different rules, but this requires that you specify very precisely what you want to consider matching.
> It's overly complex and needs to be simplified
Specifying different rules than identical strings for URLs *is* a very complex problem and can find unexpected dupes especially for apparently simple rules. This lies in the nature of things. That's why "expert mode" is usually not recommended (unless you really understand regular expressions and carefully read the instructions).