Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
Review by akasico1
Rated 5 out of 5
by akasico1, 7 months ago251 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Laura, 2 months agoThank 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 months agoWelcome, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by piecevcake, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13326192, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Blackbird, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18212161, 4 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 16238091, 5 months agoTried 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 5 months agoHello, 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Stromfeldt, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by nur, 6 months agoIndispensable add-on.
One small problem when I (mistakenly) open two Properties dialogs for the same bookmark.
1. Create a bookmark "testA" and press Save.
2. Right-click the bookmark "testA" and open Properties. Let's call this dialog2.
3. Right-click the bookmark "testA" again and open Properties. Let's call this dialog3.
4. Edit the title of dialog3 to "testB" and Save. The bookmark correctly changes to "testB".
5. Switch the focus to dialog2.
6. Don't edit dialog2 and just press its Cancel or X button. It will close.
7. But then, the bookmark automatically changes its title back to "testA".
I expect it to keep "testB", because I pressed Cancel for dialog2.
(Reply to Developer response):
Yes, limiting property windows to single instances sounds better.
Additional note. I called it a "dialog", but unlike modal dialogs, it is actually a non-modal window, and this is very convenient because I can copy and paste multiple text and URL from the browser's webpage into the properies, and vice versa. I can even swap multiple portions between two bookmarks. So keep it non-modal, if possible.
(Reply to update 05/11/2023)
Dialog in 2.0.119 works as expected.
I also add my thanks for your implementing the Undo feature.Developer response
posted 6 months agoHello, thank you.
I guess I see in fact 2 changes to do here:
- when opening properties, if already open, re-focus on the already open one instead of opening a second one (I will verify this is possible)
- currently, when changing the value of a field in the property window, the bookmark value is immediately changed = this was the old behavior of FF when I created the add-on some years ago, a bit strange but this is what it was .. and so I mimicked it .. and so Cancel is restoring the old values when opening the property window.
However, this behavior now changed in FF, so I will look at going back to a more natural flow, where values are only changed when pressing "Save" (and so Cancel should do nothing, as the name says).
============ update 05/11/2023 ===========
Both changes made in 2.0.119 which is out now. Let me know on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues if any problem.
And yes, this is non modal. And by the way, it can't be modal, as the FF Web extension (add-ons) API does not allow modal windows as of today, to my knowledge.
Thank you, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12824412, 7 months agoGoergeous tool! Been looking for regex and some "show-my-bookmark-in-its-tree-location" functionality. And 'bmsp2' has both. Thank you very much, Chris
- Rated 5 out of 5by poisonu, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by overtomanu, 8 months ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by fireman0909, a year agoThere is a problem with the way the favicon is obtained.
First, open a bookmark that has already acquired a favicon.
Then open another bookmark in the same tab before the page finishes loading.
Then the acquired favicon disappears.
Please fix this problem.
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The above issue seems to have been resolved. thank you.
However, there was another problem.
Unable to open external file bookmarks.
for example,
file:///D:/Download/WebScrapBook/data/20230405010758065/index.html
I can't open bookmarks starting with 'file:///' like this.
Please fix it.Developer response
posted a year agoHello @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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Cr8zy_Ivan, a year agoThe Firefox Bookmark Sidebar already kicks butt. This Add-On takes it to a whole new level. I am seriously impressed (🡰 Initial Review - 2023-03-28).
Edit (2023-07-27). After 4 months of use now, I just keep getting blown away by how amazing this Add-On is. More often than not in reviews, through time, ratings go down. I believe this is the first time I've actively come back to a review to praise it even more. If I could give a 6 star rating, I would. Amazing job aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14360676, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13366226, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by halperdude, a year agoThis functionality should be built into Firefox Bookmarks. I'm very grateful this add-on exists. Was driving myself mad right clicking the item i searched and then clicking show in folder. Now if only there was an add-on to find duplicates in folders... haha
- Rated 4 out of 5by kiwichick, a year agoI have just started using this and I absolutely love it, especially being able to see which folder a bookmark is saved in. The only issues I have found so far are:
1) I have 'Remember size of resizeable objects' checked but the search pane isn't permanent (it is with the bookmark Properties window). If I close then re-open the bookmarks sidebar, the search resize is lost. If I choose another entry from the sidebar dropdown (eg: Bookmarks, History) then return to BSP2, the search resize is lost. There is nothing in Options that says this is expected behaviour so, if it is, can a note please be added to specify this.
2) Closing and reopening the bookmark sidebar, or choose another entry from the sidebar dropdown and returning to BSP2, doesn't retain the scroll position in the bookmark list.
IN RESPONSE TO YOUR REPLY:
1) Thank you for investigating.
2) No, you are not misunderstanding. I see that the scroll returns to center. That's all good if it's expected behaviour. At least it hasn't been scrolled out of view.Developer response
posted a year agoHello 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17530236, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Al, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17659240, a year agoWhen you have a forest of book marks like I do you will lose track of where certain bookmarks are, and this is the only extension I've found so far that helps you find them. Can't imagine life without it!
- Rated 5 out of 5by GD, 2 years agoThank you for your labor of love, aaFn! It's great for finding those stray bookmarks. Can it also search on the Tag field?
Developer response
posted a year agoHello GD, sorry for the delay, unfortunately, the Firefox Web API doesn't give access to tags, as explained in the "About tags and keywords" section of the add-on page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-search-plus-2/ - Rated 5 out of 5by LenkoeGafane, 2 years ago