Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn

4.7 Stars out of 5

Review by Firefox user 13859248

by Firefox user 13859248, 7 years ago

Thank you for resurrecting "Bookmark search plus" !!

1.) In the Firefox Control-B, if you right-click and select Properties there are Keywords and Description fields. These are missing from your Control-Q right-click, Properties dialog. :-( :-(

2.) Please add search for Tags, Keywords and Description fields

3.) When you right-click on a bookmark, the context menu pops up. If you click Esc, it exits and closes the context menu - good. However, if when the context menu is showing, if you click elsewhere off of the context menu (like on an open browser page) then Esc no longer works to get you out of the context menu.click something in the menu. Suggestion: when you click elsewhere, close the context menu.

Developer response

posted 7 years ago

Hello, thank you for the comments.
Indeed, this is facing 2 limitation from Firefox WebExtensions API =

1) & 2) Tags, Keywords and Description are not made available to add-ons.
See Bugzilla https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916
and dev documentation https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/BookmarkTreeNode
No such field ... => no way to get that today :-( (note: the bug is only 2 years old, there is hope ..)

3) Events occurring out of the frame (sidebar) where the add-on is running are not dispatched to the add-on by FF.
So when you click outside the sidebar, like on an open browser page, the add-on is not informed and does not get any event. Same for keys .. => nothing can happen as the add-on simply doesn't know.

However, when you click anywhere else inside the sidebar, the context menu gets closed.