Recensioni per Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 di aaFn
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- Valutata 5 su 5di eggyolk, 6 anni faVery nice replacement for the old "Go Parent Folder" extension. Thanks a lot!
Note: If you are using the "Privacy Settings" add-on, you can't use the
setting "websites.resistFingerprinting" of that add-on, since it makes firefox
report spoofed information to websites. In turn, the icon of "Bookmark search
plus 2 (v2.0.24)" in the toolbar is grayed out and a tool tip states that
"Bookmark search plus 2" does not work in FF56. However, opening "Help > About
Firefox" shows the correct version (60.0.2) of firefox.
UPDATE: Hello aaFn, many thanks for your swift update to version 2.0.25 - it works nicely!Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 anni faHello eggyolk, this is because websites.resistFingerprinting (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/privacy/websites)
is disabling proper reporting of FF version in Navigator.buildID -> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/buildID
However, BSP2 needs the FF version, because I make it available on FF 56 for people wanting to use it on pre-Quantum (they are not able to go to Quantum [FF57+] due to other extensions they have which wouldn't work anymore with Quantum).
And on FF56, there are some WebExtension bookmarks features not available, for which I need to activate a special code so that I can get around those lacks.
Good news however, that particular privacy setting forces buildID to a specific impossible value on Quantum (20100101) which I can recognize, and as per documentation this setting can only happen on FF 58+, so when the code sees it, it can deduce it is running on FF 58+.
*** I will get out 2.0.25 tonight so that it will work with that privacy setting and with the Privacy settings add-on, and you can get both working side by side ***
The downside is that if at some time in the future I need to recognize an FF version superior to FF58 for new features coming from FF API, I won't be able to do that for people who have enabled that setting .. And so they may not be able to benefit from those new features.
Let me know if the new version is not working in your case. - Valutata 5 su 5di EarthWindAndFirefox, 6 anni faFive stars for creating a much-needed bookmark search feature, last seen in the pre-Quantum "Go To Parent Folder" add-on. Its responsiveness is indeed somewhat slow, as noted by user Paul Jackson, below, yet the developer's answer is informative about the reason for this. Faster would be better, but having the functionality in the first place is what matters most at this time.
Thanks to user irripod for alerting me to this extension (by way of a comment for another add-on) and, most of all, to the developer for the good work. The developer's communicative engagement with users in this comment section is a further point of note. - Valutata 5 su 5di vitaaliy, 6 anni faUnique extension for finding bookmarks in the large trees with a complicated multilevel folders and number of entries more than 80,000. The author aaFn put great efforts to function it flawlessly. My appreciations!
- Valutata 2 su 5di Paul Jackson, 6 anni faIt looks like it would be a delightful add-on, however I have nearly 10,000 bookmarks, and everytime I access or start a search in my bookmarks using this add-on, my 60.0.1 Firefox hangs with 100% CPU utilization in a single thread, for about 45 seconds, before proceeding just fine. I'd wager that there's an N-squared algorithm, where N is the number of bookmarks, somewhere in a critical path.
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pubblicato il 6 anni faHello Paul Jackson, indeed and this is not due to the add-on, but to Firefox API.
See this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1396364
This is hitting peope with lots of bookmarks. Firefox devs seem to think that 95% of users have less than 2000 bookmarks, and they consider people like you (or me) as "pathological cases" :-)
Patiently waiting for things to improve on Firefox side, and trying some workarounds meanwhile .. https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/2
Sorry that I do not have a better answer, aaFn. - Valutata 5 su 5di mantheakis, 6 anni faPhew. I really missed the old 'Go To Parent Folder' extension, and this add-on contains that functionality which makes it really useful!
- Valutata 5 su 5di ohillary, 6 anni fai can't tell u how many hours wasted trying to find out why a user can't search for their own goddamn folders in a browser. multiple forums later, nothing 'cept more grey hair. why even make folders if you can't later go in and search? seems like a internet 1.0 problem to me and none of the minions can explain why. had to use parent folder from alice but that became obsolete. now luckily, the extension was born.
con: sometimes doesn't show folder; have to right click to reveal . . . BFD, right?
pluses: this extension is a lifesaver. it has the highest utility for me. thank you, thank you, thank you
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update: when i was doing 3-4 searches in a row, the search pane would just churn and be blank. reloading fixed it. just updated firefox to 60.0.1 (64-bit) and not having the problem. i really appreciate you working on this extension.Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 anni faThank you ohillary.
Can you detail the operation you are doing when the folder is not showing, and you need a right click to reveal ? (I guess you're talking in the search pane).
Also, are you in "simple" or "advanced" click mode ? (see Options)
Any click should show the corresponding bookmark, so if not, there is a bug which I need to correct :-)
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Edit: thank you for the update. If any problem is showing, do not hesitate to create an issue here -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues - Valutata 4 su 5di Chris, 6 anni faGreat add-on - unfortunately it removes the entry "Sort By Name" from the folder pop-up (right click on a folder)
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pubblicato il 6 anni faHello, 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 - Valutata 4 su 5di Vivian De Smedt, 6 anni faBookmark Search Plus works very well. It let you locate very easily your bookmark even on very large sets.
- Valutata 4 su 5di sergio, 6 anni fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 14019299, 6 anni faThis is a very helpful add-on if you want to (re)organize your bookmarks. Find the folder where you have stored your bookmark, and then decide if you want to move it somewhere else. It is also useful if you have duplicate bookmarks and you want to decide which location you want to keep, and which one you want to delete.
Thanks a lot! - Valutata 5 su 5di Spencer Mathews, 6 anni fa
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 14012911, 6 anni fagéniale. c'est exactement ce que je recherche depuis logtemps déja. POUVOIR FAIRE DES RECHERCHE DANS LES FAVORIS DANS LES DOSSIER ECT. c'est génial. Merci pour cette extension !!
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 14009808, 6 anni faThis really should be the way FF works out of the box. Thanks you.
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 13582280, 6 anni fafinally! so much useful and worthit! this will make EVERTYTHING EASY!
This is the Top 1 Addon Firefox should have before anything else, Bookmark Parent Folder is the most essential Addon, I wonder why firefox devs never focus it but thanks to this author who made this! really thanks a bunch for this! - Valutata 5 su 5di Anonymous Interested Party, 6 anni faJust what the doctor ordered to take away my pain!
That Mozilla still hasn't made this functionality native after all these years is ridiculous.
Thank you for taking up a just cause developer aaFn! - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 13985615, 6 anni favery effective addon. Essential if you have many bookmarks folders. Big plus clicking on bookmark it's immediately located in the bookmarks tree
- Valutata 5 su 5di Ahmmad Ismail, 6 anni faNot to mention - the feature of showing the parent folder.
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 13957717, 6 anni faThank you SOOOO MUCH for reviving the functionality of this add-on/extension! I actually haven't even tried playing with this yet because I wanted to immediately express my gratitude for your initiative...(I know how useful reviews are for businesses). Used the old version (by Alice777) for EVER...and have been SO frustrated since it's demise. How can anyone surf daily, accumulated thousands of bookmarks so quickly...but NOT even be able to find a bookmark's parent folder?? Impossible! But I kept hoping a quality developer that understands the deep void created by the absence of this indispensable tool would pick up the reigns and breathe new life into it. Thank you again!
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pubblicato il 6 anni faThank you. Well the best way to understand the void is to feel it.
And as a user, I can tell you I felt it as much as you .. hence my motivation for doing this add-on .. Happy to see I was not the only one feeling it :-) - Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 13599063, 6 anni faExcellent add-on. Serves well as a substitute for "Go Parent Folder".
- Valutata 5 su 5di Utente Firefox 13954710, 6 anni faSo helpful! I can find the folder that bookmarks are in. Great help with bookmark clean up and organization.
- Valutata 5 su 5di Gammadeus, 6 anni faThank 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,.
GammadeusReplica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 anni faHello 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. - Valutata 5 su 5di Upgeya, 6 anni faThis 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!
- Valutata 5 su 5di piotrv, 6 anni faDev, 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?Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 anni faThank 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 :-) - Valutata 5 su 5di Neophile, 6 anni faWell, 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.Replica dello sviluppatore
pubblicato il 6 anni faHello 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.