Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
203 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by brain8891, 4 years agoIf you need to find a bookmark, THIS IS IT. Having said that, remember that Firefox don't allow add-ons to access [Tags] & [Keywords], But I am sure that aaFn will implement it as soon as it is available. Now back to my review, this made my life easier, I need to find a bookmark folder, I just filter by folders, and then add that bookmark there. so easy. Thank you aaFn, for sharing this. I wanted to thank you today, by finding an email or something, and I realized I didn't even review your add-on. For others. Always review and thank good add-ons developers, and if you can always donate to them.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16126167, 4 years agoWith this add-on one can find folder where bookmark is located. Thanks for feature I need!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15929686, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by kay emme, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Infinity, 4 years agoA magnificent and extremely useful extension.
Yes, it does omit several key features in certain areas, but this is solely due to the pathetically limited Firefox API (which is in no way the fault of this extension).
In fact it's a miracle that even this level of functionality was attainable, given how ridiculously limited the capabilities of Web Extensions are.
Kudos to the developer. - Rated 5 out of 5by Joao Martins, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15935120, 4 years ago
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello, if you read the add-on description page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-search-plus-2/, you will see it has to fetch the favicon for each bookmark to be able to display them (the little images at front of bookmarks). This is because Firefox doesn't give access to them. The add-on does that only once.
Alerts mean that you have plenty of bookmarks to malwared URLs .. :-)
You can deactivate favicon fetching in the options page, and you won't get any alert. But then all icons will be the standard "no favicon" icon. We are just waiting that Firefox gives us that access -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315616
Thank you, aaFn.- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15907683, 4 years agoThis is a great add-on that I've used for a long time with no adverse issues. It's also an add-on that I really like.
However, it has developed a sudden glitch. It will throw out a brief message that is on screen for only a fraction of a second that reads as follows: "BSP2 detected a desynchronization and is reloading bookmarks from FF API. Please wait..."
This happens as soon as I type in any of the following four letters: "a", "g", "s" and "t". It will not display any results for those four letters.
All other letters and numbers work fine. Have uninstalled and reinstalled BSP2. Have restarted FF several times but no luck so far. No idea where to turn to get this resolved.
Update: developer answered quickly (thanks!) and also found the problem which will be resolved in the next update. See his reply to this message. Thank you!Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello, yes I also fell on that recentlyl, it seems the behavior of FF bookmark search API changed a bit and is now returning two special folders I was not seeing before, and which are not expected (namely the "Tags" special folder ... but also the Mobile bookmarks special folder even when it is empty).
Since they are not expected, BSP2 believes there is a de-synchronization with the FF DB of bookmarks, and attempts a reload.
This is corrected in 2.0.76 which will be out soon ... I filtered out those two items when appropriate from the search result gotten from FF API.
Thanks aaFn.
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2.0.76 is out now with the fix for extended search responses.
Should be all ok now, sorry for the inconvenience, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by vtibi, 4 years agoI can't believe that firefox lacks this functionality by default.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15892547, 4 years agoAbsolutely BRILLIANT. Thanks so much. It returns folder folder names in search results, which the built in search doesnt :-) Even site icons eventually show up, just takes some time.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15022029, 4 years agoSuggestion: focus searchbar upon opening sidebar (alt + b)
Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello, thank you.
On focus, alas this is not yet possible, Firefox does not allow that -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502713
Impatiently waiting that FF fixes the bug .. :-) - Rated 5 out of 5by they86, 4 years agoI think it's insane that this is not native in Firefox. - Thanks for the fix.
Also ability to customise the font and line spacing was above and beyond my expectations. Great!
Suggestions for further improvement:
- I think the Options-page is a bit hidden away - why not make it accesable right from the star icon?
- the "advanced click" option is very useful (choose if you want to open the bookmark or show the location in your bookmark folder), but it's a bit tricky to remember that you have to click the WHITE SPACE NEXT TO the search result. - Maybe you can add some kind of icon, like an arrow or something, to make it clearer and more user friendly?
- shortcut for opening the sidebar:
* it seems to be impossible to overwrite the Firefox Bookmark shortcut?
* adding the "shift" button as an option to program your own shortcut would come in handy
- a shortcut for opening Bookmark Search "full screen" (in a tab) would also be nice.
Thanks for your great work!Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello they86, thank you. Interesting suggestions, so lets go through them one by one:
- Ok, I will add access to the options page in the right click menu of the BSP2 icon in the toolba,r for easier / faster access.
- Indeed, now that you say it, I see that the visual mouse pointer shape to distinguish an active part (favicon and text in Advanced mode), from a non active part (blank in advanced mode, or whole line on folders or whole line on bookmarks in Simple mode), is not really consistent across Simple and Advanced modes in search results.
So in 2.0.74, I am improving the behavior as follows: a pointer mouse cursor (little hand) will now only show on active parts to open bookmark (= favicon and text in Advanced mode), while a default mouse cursor will always show on non active parts to locate bookmark item (= blank in advanced mode, or whole line on folders, or whole line on bookmarks in Simple mode).
This should be visually clearer and easier.
- You are correct, an add-on cannot override the Firefox bookmark shortcut. This is Firefox security feature.
- "Shift" alone is not possible, it can only be with "Ctrl" or "Alt" .. See "Shortcut values" in https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/commands
- Ok I will see if I can also add a shortcut to open BSP2 in a tab -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/130
Thanks, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Yuri, 4 years agoExactly what I was looking for! So much easier to get around in the bookmarks now. The icons look a little bit antiquated, though. Anyway, an extremely useful tool. Thanks.
- Rated 5 out of 5by blankon, 4 years agohi, nice addons and thx for your effort, its almost perfect, except...
"Bookmark search plus 2" only working on sidebar, and my sidebar already used by addons "tree style tab" with thousand tab, ineffective to switch due load time...
what do you think, to better organize and integration with most popular addons like "tree style tab",
to add embed window or organize bookmark on new tab, like addons "bookmark manager view" does.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmarks-manager-and-viewer/
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perfect, I just edit my rating too,
I missed that feature, because the button in the hidden place.
is there any hotkey/button to access it? (without switching my sidebar first)
*as I told to you, I can't switch my sidebar easily because there is, "tree style tab"Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello @blankon, you can already run BSP2 in a new tab. Simply click on the magnifier glass button in the search box, and click "Open BSP2 in a tab" in the menu. Hope this meets your need :-)
For integration with "Tree Style Tab" add-on, this would require the developer of that add-on to allow other add-ons to open sub-windows inside it, which is not the case today (to my knowledge). Maybe in future if he/she adds that integration feature ?
Thank you, aaFn.
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In 2.0.73, I added the function to "Open BSP2 in a tab" on the right click menu of the BSP2 icon in the toolbar.
This allows you to keep "Tree Style Tab" in your sidebar, and to activate the feature without switching TST first.
This should answer your need, cheers aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by EA, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15655133, 4 years agoEs gibt keine Alternative zu diesem perfekten AddOn.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15610611, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12532989, 4 years agoPerfect ! Thank you..
I can now see parent directories again :) - Rated 5 out of 5by Bogo, 4 years agoI am TOTALLY happy with this addon!!!! I only use the sidebar BSP2 instead of the genuine Bookmark-sidebar.
Is it possible, that you even integrate the option, that when clicking on a folder, that another open folder collapses (closes)? It is a pain to always close a used folder, before opening another folder (otherwise the list within the sidebar gets longer and longer and longer as all opened folders stay open...)
AND: Could you integrate the possibility of expanding all folders and closing all folders?
Thank you for thinking about this. I am very grateful for all your efforts....Developer response
posted 4 years agoHello @Bogo, thank you. Interesting idea that opening a folder closes all others at same level .. I'll look at adding it as an option.
On the other one, yes this is planned, it's going to come soon now -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/31
aaFn
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Version 2.0.71 is now published, with the possibility of expanding all folders and closing all folders as an Advanced submenu in the context menu. - Rated 5 out of 5by atreyu, 4 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by oric1, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by loutvi, 5 years agoaddresses effectively the need of easily identifying the containing folder of a bookmark in Firefox; a feature which is desperately missing as built-in in firefox since ever
- Rated 5 out of 5by SSG, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hyk, 5 years ago