Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
Review by they86
Rated 5 out of 5
by they86, 5 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!
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 5 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.
- 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.