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Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn

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Review by Firefox user 14006752
by Firefox user 14006752, 7 years ago
Absolutely needed. Just installed it and I can see it is an awesome work. Pressing Ctrl+Q you access the Bookmar searh plus 2 the same way you access to Firefox Bookmarks, History etc on the left pane. You can even see the folders opened as you left them so you can alternate between this view and a different one in FF Bookmarks quickly.
Yet, there's an incovenient. While everything else looks to work consistently, pressing Ctrl+Q opens the left pane but the Search box is not focused (not selected), so you have to take your mouse and go to the search box to start searching for a folder, which it defeats the purpose of the keyboard shortcut (not having to lose time using the mouse or any other device that takes time moving the cursos to place the focus on something).
Moreover, all the other firefox left pane utilities do focus on them with their keyboard shortcut consistently, so we are very used to them, specially to Ctrl+B or Ctrl+H. Then it is frustrating seeing that Ctrl+Q just opens the pane...
Yet, you are doing a good job and working on it, so you deserve the 5 stars now... Thanks!

Developer response

posted 7 years ago
Hello , thank you for the feedback.
Yes I tried to get the auto-focus on the search box when I initially created the add-on (the object is "autofocus" and in the code I force focus on it), but didn't succeed well as the sidebar simply does not seem to get focus at all when it is open, and doesn't seem to be able to get it by itself :-(
To see that, when opening the sidebar, simply do an action on keyboard, and you will see that keyboard keys go to the main web page only.
Autofocus by itself is working since when you click on a non selectable object of the sidebar (like the lifts), then you see that the search box gets the cursor .. so it is really a matter of forcing focus on the sidebar as a whole.

Now that I got much more experience on add-on development and sidebar programmation, I will try again (but no guarantee, it might be intentional by FF that a web extension [not native] sidebar cannot steal focus by itself).

Thanks, aaFn.

================== Edit =================
I didn't find any way to do that, and opened a bug to FF https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502713 as this is not matching the normal behavior with native sidebars.
268 reviews
  • by Firefox user 13339547, 19 days ago
    I love this add-on, I have more than 5000 bookmarks and it really helps! But I've had one problem since the beginning: in the sidebar, you can display the bookmarks as FF bookmarks or as Bookmarksearch Bookmarks. When I delete bookmarks, they often disappear from the FF display but are still there in the Bookmarksearch display. They can no longer be deleted with a right-click. Restarting everything is futile. I have FF 115.27.0esr.

    Is it possible to have your history automatically deleted when you close Firefox? You can set the storage period to a minimum of one day.


    Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

    Developer response

    posted 17 days ago
    Hello, when the problem happens, you can go to the BSP2 options and:
    - either press the "Reload all bookmarks from FF now" button to force re-synchronization
    - or enable the following option "Revert to old behavior of loading full bookmark tree from Firefox API at each restart", which will force that reload each time (but will slow down the add-on start).

    This should help, else let me know.
  • by Firefox user 19166001, 2 months ago
  • by Angeline, 3 months ago
    Simple.. Fast for manage bookmark
  • by sjapartments, 3 months ago
    The extension works as expected. But when using Edge to import my Firefox bookmarks into Edge, many bookmarks do not get imported. Could this be because I used "Bookmarks search Plus 2" my Firefox bookmarks into multiple folder levels?

    Developer response

    posted 3 months ago
    Hello sjapartments, no, the bookmarks created through BSP2 are fully standard, they are created using the Firefox API, so they are created by Firefox itself, and they do not differ from when they are created from the native bookmark sidebar.
    There must be something else.
    Maybe Edge has a bug in importing bookmarks from Firefox ? Cf. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/unable-to-import-bookmarks-favorites-from-firefox/539ce5d5-1e8a-4ea6-bc92-a6808de6a19d, you do not seem to be alone having problems
  • by Firefox user 18954770, 5 months ago
    Brilliant. This is what Firefox built-in bookmark management should provide, but Firefox deleted that good functionality from the codebase about 15 years ago and have never seen the need for bookmark management since. This developer has done an excellent job in fulfilling a need.
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  • by vlad a, a year ago
    Thank you for continuing to support this extension!
    My access to GitHub doesn’t work, hope you don’t mind my asking here:
    (FireFox on Macbook)
    • There is a delay of about 1 second when drag-n-dropping a link into a folder.
    • Also, after “New Folder”, the first attempt at d&d’ing an existing Bookmark into it always fails and sometimes(?) calls up the link in the active tab.
    • On “Bookmark Tab(s) Here”, when saving a bookmark into a new folder (ctrl-right click), the folder name is limited to 30 characters, whereas “New folder…” does not have this limit. For now, the workaround is to use the “Properties” submenu to change to a longer name. You told me (quite:) a while ago it would be easy to discard that limit, as I think you did for “New Folder…”. Could you please increase/discard this limit too?

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hello @vlad, indeed it would be easier to continue the conversation on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, but let's see how far we can go here.

    First, I do not have a Macbook, so I rely on a virtual MacOS in a VM, that might introduce differences.
    Second, my MacOS VM is on Monterey 12.2.1, that might also be a difference with you.

    Anyway, based on FF 129.0.1, and on BSP2 v2.0.129, I am not able to reproduce any of the 3 symptoms you mention:
    - d&d of links or tabs or existing bookmarks in a folder, new or existing, is immediate, and no error on my side
    - the second symptom makes me think of a regression I fixed in 2.0.129, can you make sure that you have the latest BSP2 version ?
    - on the third, I must say I am puzzled .. the right click menu [not Ctrl-right click] has indeed "Bookmark Tab Here" [without the "(s)" part on "Tab", only one tab, the current one], but it does not ask for a folder name, it does not create one, and it has no limit to 30 characters on the folder name where the bookmark is created from the current tab, nor on the bookmark name itself. If you keep Ctrl pressed when clicking on the action, the properties menu opens on bookmark creation to ask you to modify the name, and here also, no 30 characters limit (and frankly, there was never such a limit in my code !).

    So net is that I am not able to reproduce the problems, or maybe I need a litte more precision, sorry to be slow if so.
  • by Firefox user 13385186, a year ago
    This is what Firefox's bookmark manager should've been. Love this addon
  • by daveyy foxx, a year ago
    "This add-on needs to:

    Read and modify bookmarks
    Read and modify browser settings
    Access browsing history
    Access browser tabs
    Access browsing history
    Store unlimited amount of client-side data
    Access your data for all websites"

    I'd say that's a bit much to ask for Simply being a bookmak search tool

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    Hello @davey foxx, the need for each permission is explained here, in detail for each:
    https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki/Permissions-and-Privacy-policy

    In short, these are mostly due to shortcomings or limitations in Firefox, unfortunately
    (a number of them are depending on bugzilla's to be corrected so that I can drop the need for the authorization).
  • by RKN, a year ago
  • by Firefox user 15131334, a year ago
    excellent tool. gave it 4 stars but it's 4.99. that missing 0.01 point is for the icon that i find a bit unaesthetic and doesn't compliment the usefulness of this tool. may i suggest you change it to a more minimalitic design that matches the mozilla icons? hope you will consider, would definetly bring it to a flawless 5 stars for me. thank you for making this great little tool.

    Developer response

    posted a year ago
    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.
  • by Laura, 2 years ago
    Thank you so much for making this, there's surprisingly little support for regex searching your bookmarks for some reason, which I would've thought a lot of people need/want to do. Handy little tool :)

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Welcome, and indeed, regex is quite useful. However, not so many people know how to use it, so I guess this is only for a fraction of users :-)
    Thank you, aaFn.
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  • by jm, 2 years ago
    Bravo !!! Job well done
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  • by Firefox user 16238091, 2 years ago
    Tried to use it and all I got was "Wait background load" I cannot even uninstall it from Firefox! I get a gray box with a dot in the center of it on the Firefox Add-ons page.

    Developer response

    posted 2 years ago
    Hello, sorry for the problem, and strange that you cannot even uninstall it, that would suggest a Firefox problem maybe.

    Would you mind opening an issue on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, with a screenshot of the Firefox Add-ons page, and also indicating to me which version of Firefox this is, on which OS ?

    Also, could I ask you to go to the Options page of the add-on, activate the Traces option, and then would you agree applying this procedure https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki#debugging-bsp2--reporting-errors and report me the errors or messages that you see ?

    Thank you in advance, and again sorry for the inconvenience, aaFn.
  • by Strømfeldt, 2 years ago