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.

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.

Hello kiwichick, thank you for the feedback.
On 1), that was working in the past -> I see this is not working anymore,
I will investigate.
On 2), the cursor position (= selected bookmark) is retained and shown again when opening. FF and CSS center the view on it, so that might be a little different scrolling position than when quitting, but this should be close enough. Am I misunderstanding what you are saying ?

Note: for reporting issues / bugs, the best is to open them there -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues
since then it is easy to follow up and to discuss, and to make sure that I can properly address them (this is hard to do on this add-on comment page).

============ update 17/01/2023 ===========
On 1), problem investigated, this was indeed a regression, fixed in 2.0.112 now published.
Thank you.
On 2), ok, thank you, yes this is the best behavior that can be easily achieved with GUI/presentation functions available to the add-on.

Hello @freesailor, now multiple bookmarks selection is possible, since version 2.0.103 :-) !

Hello @Cormchij, correct, this is forbidden by Firefox, add-ons cannot access / open local files.
Have a look at the Browser console (Ctrl+Shift+J) when you click on such a bookmark in BSP2, you will see security messages in it saying Firefox prevented using the URL:

"Error: Illegal URL: file:///E:...."

Note that there seems you could have a workaround, but this requires that you modify your Firefox config: http://www.websina.com/bugzero/kb/browser-file-url.html (an add-on cannot do that of course)

Hello, thank you.
Yes, because of a few limitations in the Firefox API, this is creating in fact a small browser window, not a simple property panel, so this is is slower. And to add to that, some Firefox discrepancies between OS and behavior force an opening in two steps, creating the window very small and at default place, and then moving it and enlarging it to get it painted properly :-(

Now, on the position of the window itself, it is saved, so you can move it, and next time it is open, it will reappear at the place you moved it to the previous time, so that should solve your point about not seeing the input folder name field (note: that also works if you have firefox spanning multiple screens ..)

Hello @Notlaw, thank you.

The first demand is made impossible by FF for Web extensions, the Boomark History window is not customizable and no add-on can run within it, sorry.

The second one you mention is in fact hitting a bug I opened on FF some time ago https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531539
=> we are waiting for it to be corrected by FF so that it can work.
=> Meanwhile, the work around is to drag the folder you want to move to the bookmark bar, and to drop it into the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder inside of BSP2, at top of the bookmark tree .. and the result will be the same.

Thank you, aaFn.

Hello Stan, yes this is one of the benefits of BSP2 to go past FF corruptions in the native bookmarks DB when they appear / already exist.

A careful way to proceed, but which loses tags if you have any (until FF allows us to copy tags :-( ) is typically:
- Go in BSP2 to a folder which is not showing anymore in the native sidebar
- Copy it (right click and click "Copy")
- Go to another place which is not corrupt
- Right click there and click "Paste before" or "Paste into" if a folder
- Go to the native sidebar, and verify the copied folder is there
- When all is good (can take some time when folders are big), you can delete the old "lost" folder in BSP2

A bolder way to proceed, but which should keep the tags, is typically:
- Go in BSP2 to a folder which is not showing anymore in the native sidebar
- Cut it (right click and click "Cut") - you are safe so far, as Cut does not remove anything, it just says that a future paste will be a move instead of a copy
- Go to another place which is not corrupt
- Right click there and click "Paste before" or "Paste into" if a folder - this step is safe in fact, except when FF crashes or the corruption is too strong .. should be very rare though
- Go to the native sidebar, and verify the moved folder is there

Hope this helps. If any problem, let me know on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues

Note that FF corrupts its bookmark DB on its own .. BSP2 does not play a role in that.
This is why there is a backup function of bookmarks in FF (saved everyday automatically by FF, you can find the backups in one of the menus of the Bookmarks Library).

Hello, yes we would all love to, but no app can do that for now, this is not provided by Firefox :-(
If you can vote on Bugzilla to get this promoted, please do so .. it is P3 right now, and 4 years old -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916

Yes, this is a todo https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/29 .. It will come, but not sure when yet :-)

------------------------------- Edit ------------------
Hello @wtfs, now multiple bookmarks selection is possible, since version 2.0.103 :-) !

Hello Registrierter Benutzer, ok, can you open an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues so that we track this down ?

I also see that https://github.com/Aris-t2/CustomCSSforFx (Speravir ?) suggested some customizations specific to BSP2. If you can bring him in, we could also see how to integrate better maybe ?

Cheers, aaFn.

Hello jon482, this add-on searches for any bookmark item, be they folders or bookmarks.
For folders, this is using their title, which is what I believe you call their name.
For bookmarks, this is using their title or their url, whichever matches.
So it does what you want .. or let me know what I am missing.

If there is a feature you would like to see added, please ask here -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues

Thank you, aaFn.

Hello taharqa, thank you.
Yes, a bug was open on Firefox 8 months ago -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502713
Need to wait that it is corrected, I didn't find a workaround so far.
Regards, aaFn.
-------------------------------------
Update, in Linux Firefox 67.0 I see that it works, so this is only on Windows Firefox that we are waiting for the fix to come ..

Hello Thomas, correct, this is the default behavior of FF -> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/manifest.json/sidebar_action

This is a security default, so that an install doesn't go unnoticed by the user.

Note that:
- If you immediately redisplay the previous sidebar you had, then subsequent new windows use the one you just selected.
- When you close FF with a sidebar open, next time it restarts, it reopens with the same sidebar you had at time of close.
These are FF behaviors at this time which an add-on cannot modify.

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.

Hello alexg, thank you.
As said in some other post below, this is unfortunately not possible as of Firefox 57 and higher.
Quantum does not allow any add-on action in the bookmark manager.
aaFn

Hello Matteo, unfortunately, as said on the add-on main / description page, there is no management / display of bookmark tags, keywords, description field possible as Firefox does not expose those fields through its Web Extension API's.

This is a long open bug to FF (3 years) -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916

Until they are made is available by FF, it won't be possible to manage them in BSP2.

Hello, I can add it if this is really used.
Mind that because of FF new WebExtension API limitations, I had to recreate a user interface ... so I am incrementally enriching it as per user demand.

If you want the function, would you mind creating the demand here so that we track it ?
https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues