Reviews for Bookmark Dupes
Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth
492 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by TW, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Brube98, 8 months agoAbsolutely beautiful, well made and much needed. The dev has clearly dealt with horrific cross-folder bookmark dupes from browser imports, handling everything from 'keep all but oldest' and 'keep all but newest' schemes all the way to empty folder cleanup when the deed is done. Too good to pass up on a review.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14277984, 8 months agoVery barebones interface but does the job in a clear way and in batches, with very sensible defaults.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18322529, 8 months agoI love that this add-on is not shy to give a ton of options. I have MANY bookmarks and needed bulk actions, and this one is the only one who has it and I tried several add-ons! <3
- Rated 5 out of 5by ffsm616, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Nikolarasbig, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18278559, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by 김성민, 9 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hollytryx, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18261887, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CubicleHermit, 10 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Amy Latham, a year agoThis is a great app, but I wish it had a way to merge folders.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Zekken9999, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by brnfra, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Moomy, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by What???, a year agoOne star.
Firstly, it does work if you have time and know how to navigate around the complexity of this extension.
It takes approximately 1.7 seconds to delete one single "dupes".
Now, if you have over 13000 duplicates it will take more than 6 hours (with your PC fans whirring) despite the CPU load being at 12%.
Extention doesn't scan ALL your bookmarks (across different folders and subfolders) at once. Even then, it's not detecting duplicate urls within the same folder (most of the time).
In other words, you can have duplicate urls across many different folders but it won't detect them because it can only scan one bookmark folder at a time. There's no option to scan all folders.
There is no real instructions too and it can be very tricky to use. It's overly complex and needs to be simplified.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). - Rated 5 out of 5by Mortenrb, a year agoDoes exactly what it says it does, a great tool when you've moved back and forth between browsers and bookmarks gets duplicated on move
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15922497, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mach Fiver, a year agoWOW!!! Now why on earth would anyone ever want to delete all copies of anything that is duplicated? Why is that even an option? I assumed it would delete copies and leave one behind but mark all just deleted all copies. I have in the past used multiple browsers so bookmarks differ and every now and then I export import across them, (I'm fickle and easily swayed to switch a browser) which makes multiple copies of everything. Now close to 50k in bookmarks I thought I'd clean them up and this addon just wiped everything except for a couple hundred that weren't duped at all. If I had two copies it removed both of them. I could have just deleted all my bookmarks bar a few in way less time. Now I have to go remove the last few and a ton of empty folders and re import the mess again and find something that doesn't do what yours just did. Why is merging duplicate folders and bookmarks so dang hard? Well at least your addon didn't just freeze my browser like the one I tried on edge did even after i cancelled the operation I had to use task manager to close the thing
Developer response
posted a year agoThe extension does what you tell it to: If you mark all and then press remove all marked it will of course remove all. (Why is "mark all" an option: There are dozens of marking options for selecting all but one in certain groups of dupes, and "mark all" is the one where you need to do the (de-)selection manually, typically one in each group.)
If you removed too many bookmarks by mistake, it is normally not a problem: firefox keeps a copy of previous bookmarks. Just go to "Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks" and then under "Import and Backup -> Restore ->" there will pop up a list of automatic bookmark backups from which you can restore one.