Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
211 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Gammadeus, 7 years agoThank you so much !!!
The first version (created originally by Allice0775) was a must-have , and after its wiping from here there wasn't a similar addon.
I haven't yet believed I shall encounter such a good addon like the original one.
This is almost so good as that was.
Of course it needs some polishing, but it seems (by the number of versions made in the last two month period) that it is under heavy developing, and it is much more than okay. :-)
I'm so thankful for this addon and the efforts behind it.
A fantastic and great job in the new world of Quantum's webextensions. ;-)
On the other hand, it can be used in Faterfox (which is based on Firefox 56).
I use it in both browsers with satisfaction.
Thanks again.
Best regards,
Gammadeus
P.S.
If you could make the remake of Allice0775' s other great and highly rated addon, the "Default Full Zoom Level", there would simply be the heaven.
With separeted icons (the red "P" and the blue "A"icons for zooming in and out, and resizing the magnification of the page and the size of the letters) there was the best zooming addon for the good ol' Firefox.
Of course it is only a beautiful dream.... But the dreams sometimes come true. . .
And I'm -- as so many others -- an incorrigible dreamer. . . ;-)
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UPDATE _ 01.
Thanks for the tips, I know both of them. (The Ctrl+mous-wheeling is well known, but it has its own limits.)
Zomm Page WE is good enough (and better than the Mozilla's solution built in Firefox), bot not so good as Alice0775's addon, which one is more simple, and the separated icons (for separated zooming: one for the page zooming and another one for text zooming), with customizable zooming-scale.
If you are interesting in the Default Full Zoom Level addon, I have the original installer file of it (xpi, version 7.7). I collected from my saved old Firefox-56 's directory, so if you give me privat acces / address, I can send for you.
It would be so great to see it again, as a webextension addon here on AMO.
If I knew the proper programming language and I knew coding, I would wright it from the scrach (as a functional fork of Default Full Zoom Level).
Hi,.
GammadeusDeveloper response
posted 7 years agoHello Gammadeus, thank you. I didn't know about the "Default Full Zoom Level" extension by alice0775. I tried to find it to test it on an old version of FF, but didn't succeed to get it (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=659681).
On the other hand, did you notice that in latest FF's, at least on Windows and Linux, there is now a native function for zooming ?
If you hold the Ctrl key and use your mouse wheel, it zooms in or out depending on the wheel direction, and you get a zoom % "bubble" in the address bar when it is different from 100%, with a way to reset it to 100% by clicking on it.
Probably not as handy as alice0775's extension, as I guess it was able to remember the zoom % per site / URL, but always better than nothing.
Also, did you look at https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/zoom-page-we/ ? I wonder if this is not close enough to what you want. - Rated 5 out of 5by Upgeya, 7 years agoThis is the first time I've ever rated an extension, and I'm soooo grateful you've developed it! I was so missing the old "Go Parent Folder" and "Show Parent Folder" add-ons. If you save bookmarks in a complex tree, this extension so deserves your attention! It allows you to see your entire bookmarks tree in the same window as the page you're wanting to bookmark, and search the tree for specific words. When searching, it shows you all the folders and bookmarks containing that combination of words. Clicking on a given folder or bookmark in the resulting search list causes the tree (separately displayed) to open up to the place in the tree hierarchy it exists. Right-click (context menu) on an item in the tree, and you can manipulate the folder or bookmark (cut, copy, delete, etc.). Fantastic!
- Rated 5 out of 5by piotrv, 7 years agoDev, you are a life-saver !
The Go_Parent_Folder was the main reason why I still was using Firefox ESR.
Now a working Scrapbook and everything back to normal at last.
Maybe a silly question, but why didn't Mozilla add this essential functionality in their FF?Developer response
posted 7 years agoThank you piotrv, welcome.
Indeed, I still wonder why its not there since the beginning.
Look at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196509, this demand is 15 years old ... and there are others asking for the same kind of functionality, they are between 9 and 18 years old ..
I guess it will come one day .. but as I didn't want to wait, and since I didn't want either to stick to old versions of FF, I decided to give it a go :-) - Rated 5 out of 5by Neophile, 7 years agoWell, this add-on is quite good and works exactly how I need, but I am missing very much another another one Alice had, which saved me so much time ans nerves. I am talking about the Go Parent Folder in FF library. Maybe you could are it work with the present versions of FF, please? Give us an idea. I tried to tell her this through her site, but it is very difficult and is all written in Japanese and you know Google does not translate many things in there.
@ooFn.
Thank you for your reply. I know about the changes with FF extensions. The information about it was published about one year before it happened. What I meant was a suggestion to adapt alice0075's Go to Parent Folder like you did with this one. I still have the xpi file, now useless, of course.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello Neophile, the new WebExtension mode of FF, which is the only one remaining (alice0775 was a XUL extension, this is not allowed anymore by FF), does not permit an add-on to function from within the bookmark library so far. So I didn't find any way yet to do what you suggest.
I tried also to see with alice0775 when publishing this follow up, but it appears alice0775 is not wanting to work with WebExtensions for now. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13909246, 7 years agoVery nice work, many thanks.
Favicons are retrieved even when the user has set Firefox to block favicons everywhere:
// disable favicons in shortcuts
user_pref("browser.shell.shortcutFavicons", false);
// disable favicons in tabs and new bookmarks
user_pref("browser.chrome.site_icons", false);
user_pref("browser.chrome.favicons", false);
// disable favicons in web notifications
user_pref("alerts.showFavicons", false);
Having 'Bookmark search plus 2' respect Firefox's favicons' settings would be appreciated.
EDIT after developer's response :
Since it is not possible to synchronize the favicons' display with that of Firefox maybe an option specific yo BSP2 regarding Favicons would do it, as for instance in the 'Flagfox' extension, such as 'Favicons Yes/No'
This is neither an issue nor even a true enhancement, but an option for users who wish not to retrieve Website icons (which by the way also adds time to the process). I think more users than we may imagine block favicons.
The idea is that I don't see why connections to sites would be performed for accomplishing a task (localizing a bookmark in the Library) which is basically an off-line process.
EDIT 2 :
Version 2.0.15 now includes a 'Disable favicon fetching' option : rating updated from 4 to 5 starts.Developer response
posted 7 years agoHello Makaversky, thank you.
Unfortunately, WebExtension add-ons do not have access to those settings, these are not exposed by the browser.browserSettings API.
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/browserSettings
So until these settings are made visible in some manner by Firefox to WebExtension add-ons, BSP2 won't be able to know about them :-( Sorry for that. - Rated 5 out of 5by Mark, 7 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by recycler.fox, 7 years agoHad not idea about drag-n-drop (1). You have to publish these reviews as separate book(mark:). Thanks a lot for addon.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12623088, 7 years agoFinally an extension that shows parent folder. Good job!
For some reason, after performing a search, the results keep flashing as though it keeps refreshing. That's a problem because when I try to scroll down the results list, it refreshes after 1-2 seconds and sends me back to the top. I don't see an option to turn off this constant refreshing.
I'm sure the developer will fix this, so I'll still give it 5 stars. I'm happy to have the parent folder search.
Thank you!Developer response
posted 7 years agoEDIT: thank you for opening the Issue. Thinking twice .. I know what is the problem, it is a side effect of a 2.0.9 improvement which happens only for new users of the add-on. And it happens only during initial favicon fetching. I will correct this overlook in 2.0.10. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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Hello syncup, strange, this normally only happens when there is a modification to a bookmark in background ... which should not be often at all ..
Would you mind opening an Issue here -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues ?
A few questions, if you can add corresopnding answers in the Issue:
- do you have any other add-on related to bookmarks installed besides BSP2 ?
- is the refreshing persisting all time and until you close the search pane, or stopping after a few moments ?
Thank you, aAfn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13808957, 7 years agoFirst extension since Firefox 57 to include the "go to parent folder" functionality. Great!
- Rated 5 out of 5by a3overgaauw, 7 years agoAt last I can find my bookmarks in my folder structure. Thanks a lot.