I never write reviews.... this addon is PERFECT in everyway based on its description. Great job Paul!

A great extension to compensate for a Firefox problem of not syncing or importing favicons. Took a couple of hours to go through about 7k sites. Very well thought out. There is a problem with the folder icon. The folder info from hovering over it is truncated to the size of the sidebar which means you can't tell what the folder is for long folder names. Even stretching the sidebar to its maximum width did not help.

One request I have is to create a log file of the problems, etc. that can be worked later. I had about 1600 problems that I did not have time to go through and fix. Once you leave Checkmarks that session is gone for good.

Sorry but the instructions to are not even clear at all, so i can not even use it due to terrible instructions.

The instructions say:

"You find the extension in the drop-down menu of the bookmarks/history sidebar. (Ctrl/CMD + B toggles the sidebar)"

What do i press?? I cant find a "CMD" key on my keyboard? what does this mean?? do i need to hold down control + cmd + B? Or does it mean either ctrl or CMD + b? Either way i couldn't find CMD button so that never worked and when i tried just Cntrl + B that opened a side bar but there was nothing in that side bar that i could find that said anything like checkmarks.. love to use it but the instructions are so terrible i couldn't i tried for a half an hour.....

UPDATE:
Ok After looking deeper I have actually figured this out and will give proper instructions to others having this issue, as i read through the comments and noticed others had issues getting it working as well but none of their instructions were clear enough for me either.

Here is good clear instructions that work:

1) Install checkmarks addon to firefox

2) Ensure you have the "menu bar" enabled in firefox. (To enable this menu bar right click on the "white space" around address bar ... a small menu will pop up and make sure you have a checkmark beside "menu bar")

3) On firefox browser Open View/sidebar/checkmarks this will open a sidebar on the left side of your screen

4) On the left of your screen directly under "checkmarks" is a little arrow facing right with a circle around it (also known as a play button) click the play button for it to refresh your icons 5 at a time.

5) optional: disable menu bar again if you want it off by doing exactly same thing as step 2 just this time uncheck "menu bar"


With proper instructions this addon is great but since I had to basically figure this all out on my own after wasting an hour + of my day

3 star.

Fix the instructions, and this would be a great addon. Just such unclear instructions im surprised anyone could get this working.

Yeah thanks for that. Even I am not so absolutely excited about opening 3'200 Websites just to get the Favicons down and show it up for less then two days... Then the sync taking place and overwrite all the bookmarks with the favicons again..

My question is, why the heck Opera manage this without a big theater since ever and FF is not able to get this really annoying little problem solved...

Syncing from browser to browser is a daily task and using an extra add-on just to get the favicons back is more then annoying. Nothing against your add-on. I moved back to the old school bookmark import (just for FF as its's anyway not my main browser) upload and renew the bookmarks by a html file incl. the favicons .... :)

Great for when you reinstall firefox cleanly and Want to refresh the icons!

Works great. It opens all favorites and updates the favicons.

Just the extension I was looking for. I have thousands of bookmarks, some dating back almost 20 years. I was never too keen on so-called "tags" to identify my bookmarks, and there was no such concept some years ago. Therefore, I heavily rely on the presence of a favicon to know where a bookmark is coming from and to classify them (a neverending task), as well as to identify broken websites.

In the past, I had to restore Firefox profile from backups because of various crashes, breaking favicons in the process. While keeping bookmarks was my main concern, it did detract from my experience with Firefox, not knowing the original website. Some websites also don't use clear webpage titles, further obfuscating their origin.

This application is very simple: I open it in the side panel, then click "Play": it will proceed on re-loading each bookmark five by five, closing them after timeout, catching favicons in the process and detecting broken bookmarks. Sure, it will use lots of CPU for a while, but probably won't saturate the RAM or crash Firefox. You can change the rather conservative default settings if you have a really powerful computer so as to speed up the process. One caveat: DO NOT close the side panel or switch to another view there: this will stop Checkmarks and you'll have to start all over again. My advice: let it run overnight.

Nice!

But please add the ability to update individual bookmarks!

It's a major pain to update 3000+ favicons when a single bookmark has wrong favicon. (or atleast update toolbar bookmarks individually.)

Perfect reload favicons, thank you.

PRO's: Great add-on. I love the orange error; excellent detail in icons and reasoning behind each one makes things easily identifiable. Bonus for having the folder icon to indicate physical location of bookmark and the ability to update links. I have tested several others and this is the first one that doesn't crap out on me after checking 24K+ bookmarks. Side-note it took 5:53:08 to check all 24,653 bookmarks. UPDATE: Something else I noticed this seems to catch more bad links then others. I ran Bookmarks clean up which I found is the only other one that would run thru 24K+ bookmarks however it didn't flag as much; roughly 2500. I ran Checkmarks afterwords and it has caught about 2800+ more and so far I have verified 600 as being bad or potential risks.

CON's: I only gave it 4 stars due to lack of ability to select multiples to delete.

Wish-list:
Sort based on error and/or hide certain errors only showing specific ones.
Select Multiples. e.g. using CTRL+Click a check-mark box to select random ones and check-mark a box scrolling down then SHIFT+Click to check-mark another box in-turn check-marks everything in between.
Save previous search to pick-up later if browser was to crash.

Like how it does the two things that are associated with organising bms.. 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'s