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Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn

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Response by aaFn

Developer response

posted 6 years ago
Hello JoAb, thank you for the comments.

There is a toolbar icon for the extension. It is a yellow star with a "+" sign inside it. Maybe you removed it or you have something hiding it ? In the first case, try "additional tools" on far right of the toolbar, then "customize toolbar" .. and you should find it and be able to drag it back to the toolbar.

On the thing you suggest for "show search", this is not easily possible. but also this wouldn't match the frequent behavior that users often search for a boookmark to find where to drag a new bookmark which they want to put / create in that same folder and around the same place => they need to see the full contents of the folder around the searched bookmark to place the new bookmark.
By the way, this is exactly reproducing the behavior of the initial Bookmark Search Plus extension (pre-Quantum), which BSP2 is replacing.

Thank you, aaFn.

******** Edit ************************
On second thought, a proposal I could make is to add an action to the right click context menu which would be "Go parent folder" .. and it would jump you directly to the parent 100 rows above without you scrolling for it.
That action could be both in the main bookmark and in the search result panes .. what do you think ?

If that looks good to you, would you mind opening it as an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues ?

Cheers, aaFn.

******** Edit again ******************
Never mind, on third thought, I believe this is a useful feature for all, so I opened the issue myself
https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/55
and implemented the function in 2.0.34.

AaFn.
259 reviews
  • by Hollytryx, a month ago
  • by Vladimir1973, 2 months ago
  • by Firefox user 12912105, 3 months ago
  • by vlad a, 3 months ago
    Thank you for continuing to support this extension!
    My access to GitHub doesn’t work, hope you don’t mind my asking here:
    (FireFox on Macbook)
    • There is a delay of about 1 second when drag-n-dropping a link into a folder.
    • Also, after “New Folder”, the first attempt at d&d’ing an existing Bookmark into it always fails and sometimes(?) calls up the link in the active tab.
    • On “Bookmark Tab(s) Here”, when saving a bookmark into a new folder (ctrl-right click), the folder name is limited to 30 characters, whereas “New folder…” does not have this limit. For now, the workaround is to use the “Properties” submenu to change to a longer name. You told me (quite:) a while ago it would be easy to discard that limit, as I think you did for “New Folder…”. Could you please increase/discard this limit too?

    Developer response

    posted 3 months ago
    Hello @vlad, indeed it would be easier to continue the conversation on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, but let's see how far we can go here.

    First, I do not have a Macbook, so I rely on a virtual MacOS in a VM, that might introduce differences.
    Second, my MacOS VM is on Monterey 12.2.1, that might also be a difference with you.

    Anyway, based on FF 129.0.1, and on BSP2 v2.0.129, I am not able to reproduce any of the 3 symptoms you mention:
    - d&d of links or tabs or existing bookmarks in a folder, new or existing, is immediate, and no error on my side
    - the second symptom makes me think of a regression I fixed in 2.0.129, can you make sure that you have the latest BSP2 version ?
    - on the third, I must say I am puzzled .. the right click menu [not Ctrl-right click] has indeed "Bookmark Tab Here" [without the "(s)" part on "Tab", only one tab, the current one], but it does not ask for a folder name, it does not create one, and it has no limit to 30 characters on the folder name where the bookmark is created from the current tab, nor on the bookmark name itself. If you keep Ctrl pressed when clicking on the action, the properties menu opens on bookmark creation to ask you to modify the name, and here also, no 30 characters limit (and frankly, there was never such a limit in my code !).

    So net is that I am not able to reproduce the problems, or maybe I need a litte more precision, sorry to be slow if so.
  • by Firefox user 13385186, 4 months ago
    This is what Firefox's bookmark manager should've been. Love this addon
  • by daveyy foxx, 5 months ago
    "This add-on needs to:

    Read and modify bookmarks
    Read and modify browser settings
    Access browsing history
    Access browser tabs
    Access browsing history
    Store unlimited amount of client-side data
    Access your data for all websites"

    I'd say that's a bit much to ask for Simply being a bookmak search tool

    Developer response

    posted 5 months ago
    Hello @davey foxx, the need for each permission is explained here, in detail for each:
    https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki/Permissions-and-Privacy-policy

    In short, these are mostly due to shortcomings or limitations in Firefox, unfortunately
    (a number of them are depending on bugzilla's to be corrected so that I can drop the need for the authorization).
  • by RKN, 6 months ago
  • by Firefox user 15131334, 6 months ago
    excellent tool. gave it 4 stars but it's 4.99. that missing 0.01 point is for the icon that i find a bit unaesthetic and doesn't compliment the usefulness of this tool. may i suggest you change it to a more minimalitic design that matches the mozilla icons? hope you will consider, would definetly bring it to a flawless 5 stars for me. thank you for making this great little tool.

    Developer response

    posted 6 months ago
    Hello, thank you, any suggestion ? (if you can place that in https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues)
    My skills on icon design are not the best :-)
    The idea is to keep a reference / similarity to the FF bookmarks icon, with something showing a "plus", and easily distinguishable from the standard FF bookmarks icon.
  • by Laura, 9 months ago
    Thank you so much for making this, there's surprisingly little support for regex searching your bookmarks for some reason, which I would've thought a lot of people need/want to do. Handy little tool :)

    Developer response

    posted 9 months ago
    Welcome, and indeed, regex is quite useful. However, not so many people know how to use it, so I guess this is only for a fraction of users :-)
    Thank you, aaFn.
  • by piecevcake, 10 months ago
  • by Firefox user 13326192, a year ago
  • by Blackbird, a year ago
  • by jm, a year ago
    Bravo !!! Job well done
  • by Firefox user 18212161, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 16238091, a year ago
    Tried to use it and all I got was "Wait background load" I cannot even uninstall it from Firefox! I get a gray box with a dot in the center of it on the Firefox Add-ons page.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hello, sorry for the problem, and strange that you cannot even uninstall it, that would suggest a Firefox problem maybe.

    Would you mind opening an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, with a screenshot of the Firefox Add-ons page, and also indicating to me which version of Firefox this is, on which OS ?

    Also, could I ask you to go to the Options page of the add-on, activate the Traces option, and then would you agree applying this procedure https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki#debugging-bsp2--reporting-errors and report me the errors or messages that you see ?

    Thank you in advance, and again sorry for the inconvenience, aaFn.
  • by Stromfeldt, a year ago
  • by nur, a year ago
    Indispensable add-on.
    One small problem when I (mistakenly) open two Properties dialogs for the same bookmark.
    1. Create a bookmark "testA" and press Save.
    2. Right-click the bookmark "testA" and open Properties. Let's call this dialog2.
    3. Right-click the bookmark "testA" again and open Properties. Let's call this dialog3.
    4. Edit the title of dialog3 to "testB" and Save. The bookmark correctly changes to "testB".
    5. Switch the focus to dialog2.
    6. Don't edit dialog2 and just press its Cancel or X button. It will close.
    7. But then, the bookmark automatically changes its title back to "testA".
    I expect it to keep "testB", because I pressed Cancel for dialog2.

    (Reply to Developer response):
    Yes, limiting property windows to single instances sounds better.
    Additional note. I called it a "dialog", but unlike modal dialogs, it is actually a non-modal window, and this is very convenient because I can copy and paste multiple text and URL from the browser's webpage into the properies, and vice versa. I can even swap multiple portions between two bookmarks. So keep it non-modal, if possible.

    (Reply to update 05/11/2023)
    Dialog in 2.0.119 works as expected.
    I also add my thanks for your implementing the Undo feature.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hello, thank you.
    I guess I see in fact 2 changes to do here:
    - when opening properties, if already open, re-focus on the already open one instead of opening a second one (I will verify this is possible)
    - currently, when changing the value of a field in the property window, the bookmark value is immediately changed = this was the old behavior of FF when I created the add-on some years ago, a bit strange but this is what it was .. and so I mimicked it .. and so Cancel is restoring the old values when opening the property window.
    However, this behavior now changed in FF, so I will look at going back to a more natural flow, where values are only changed when pressing "Save" (and so Cancel should do nothing, as the name says).

    ============ update 05/11/2023 ===========
    Both changes made in 2.0.119 which is out now. Let me know on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues if any problem.
    And yes, this is non modal. And by the way, it can't be modal, as the FF Web extension (add-ons) API does not allow modal windows as of today, to my knowledge.
    Thank you, aaFn.
  • by akasico1, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 12824412, a year ago
    Goergeous tool! Been looking for regex and some "show-my-bookmark-in-its-tree-location" functionality. And 'bmsp2' has both. Thank you very much, Chris
  • by poisonu, a year ago
  • by overtomanu, a year ago
  • by fireman0909, 2 years ago
    There is a problem with the way the favicon is obtained.
    First, open a bookmark that has already acquired a favicon.
    Then open another bookmark in the same tab before the page finishes loading.
    Then the acquired favicon disappears.
    Please fix this problem.

    ------------------------
    The above issue seems to have been resolved. thank you.

    However, there was another problem.
    Unable to open external file bookmarks.
    for example,
    file:///D:/Download/WebScrapBook/data/20230405010758065/index.html
    I can't open bookmarks starting with 'file:///' like this.
    Please fix it.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello @fireman0909, yes, I fixed the issue as I initially answered to your comment I believe (but this edit doesn't show anymore, not sure why).

    On the second problem you mention, this is because of Firefox security policy = it doesn't allow add-ons to open such URLs, as I documented in the Limitations section of the add-on. This cannot be changed.

    Thank you, aaFn.
  • by Cr8zy_Ivan, 2 years ago
    The Firefox Bookmark Sidebar already kicks butt. This Add-On takes it to a whole new level. I am seriously impressed (🡰 Initial Review - 2023-03-28).

    Edit (2023-07-27). After 4 months of use now, I just keep getting blown away by how amazing this Add-On is. More often than not in reviews, through time, ratings go down. I believe this is the first time I've actively come back to a review to praise it even more. If I could give a 6 star rating, I would. Amazing job aaFn.
  • by Firefox user 14360676, 2 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13366226, 2 years ago