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Reviews for Bookmark Toolbar Menu Button

Bookmark Toolbar Menu Button by Button Guy

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  • by wwolfyTC, 7 years ago
  • by allan999, 7 years ago
  • by Mikkel Malmberg, 7 years ago
  • by P Drummond, 7 years ago
    It works great with http: links, but not file: links, bookmarklets or javascript. The bookmark icon handles these fine. But this is the only addon that reduces "screen real-estate" so I'm going to use it.
    Firefox 57 was not really ready for prime time. I'm thinking of returning to 56 or even Chrome until they get this hog working nicely.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    file: links can't be opened by WebExtensions at this time. Nothing I can do about that for now.
  • by aaFn, 7 years ago
    Does not work for me.
    All I have when I click on the button is a small empty rectangular area appearing just below the button.
    Nothing in it.

    Answer #1
    - looks like I cannot answer to the answer .. :-) So editing my review to answer the question ... -
    This is Firefox 57.0.2
    There should be only the "Most visited" folder for now, and then a number of bookmars in that one. That folder and its contents do not appear in the button panel.
    I tried adding a bookmark in the personal toolbar = it showed in the button panel, but again no "Most visited" piece ..
    Is that normal ??
    I looked at the browser console (Ctrl+Shitf+J), but nothing meaningful that seems related to that add-on.

    Answer #2
    - It seems you can use https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/topSites to get what is behind that "folder" ..

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    What version of Firefox are you using? How many items are actually on your toolbar and should appear? Do you know how to check the Browser Console for errors that might be relevant to this?

    Edit: It would be much easier if you used my website to contact me. But what you describe is normal. There is currently no way for extensions to interact with live bookmarks like the "Most Visited" folder, so there is no point in showing it, as I can't get the contents.
  • by David Vanderschel, 7 years ago
    Does not work for me. What I have on my bookmark toolbar is a bunch of folders. I want to be able to drill down into the folder I choose. It expands all of them, which makes the resulting list way too long. Whether or not it expands folders should be configurable.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi, I am going to add this in the future. Right now it is just simple basic functionality.
  • by daniboi, 7 years ago
    Does what it says.
    As previous poster suggested, a favicon addition would be welcome indeed.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Firefox currently does not provide extensions with the favicons of bookmarks. Hoping they do soon. There is a work around, but I view it as a privacy issue, so I will not use it.
  • by Thomas , 7 years ago
    I registered just to be able to give it 5 stars. Perfect to avoid burn-in on my plasma TV. Would be more pretty if it displayed Favicons as well but I'm still very happy! :-)
  • by Firefox user 12250329, 7 years ago
    Great idea. Not usable until collapsible.
  • by Firefox user 13469605, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13464953, 7 years ago
    Nice plugin! Almost all that I wanted since Google Shortcuts got deprecated.
  • by mpasola, 7 years ago
    The groups of bookmarks REALLY need to be collapsible before I can use it. But when that is fixed it will be a useful replacement for the defunct Bookmarks menu by hatdio.(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/bookmarks-menu) which I had got so used to.

    I understand from elsewhere in he user comments and replies that the collapsibility is coming, Thanks to the author for all the work
  • by Firefox user 12918243, 7 years ago
    What is the advantage of this add-ons compared with the built-in firefox bookmarks button menu ?

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    This shows just the bookmarks from the toolbar. So in that sense it is supposed to be a more compact version of the toolbar, and not replace the button you refer to.
  • by Rick Yagodich, 7 years ago
    Appears decent - perhaps the only viable replacement at present for the addons that compressed the bookmark bar into a clean set of unlabelled icons.
    Except that it does not respect the configuration that tells bookmarks to open in a new tab rather than the current one. Also, the lack of icons is a bit annoying, though I assume that is a forthcoming feature.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    The lack of these features is due to the limitations imposed by WebExtensions. I can't access that setting to be able to respect it. There is no easy way of getting the icon at this point, though it is hopeful that it will be possible soon, and then I will add the feature.
  • by Firefox user 13322671, 7 years ago
    Would there be a way to not have all the folders expanded? Right now the list of bookmarks in that box is quite long...

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    I will at some stage update to do this, but trying to work on so many things for Firefox 57, that I could not do everything I would like at once.