Reviews for Bookmark search plus 2
Bookmark search plus 2 by aaFn
218 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14215836, 8 years ago@ aaFn | Thanks for your timely response.
Update | A few hours before your post I removed the extension and reinstalled it. The Favicon Fetching Pause/Active feature is now working just fine.
Firefox v62.0.2 (64-bit) user
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Original Comment | Favicon fetching was working after v2.0.37 update. However, after setting fetching to Pause and later resetting to Active, fetching does not activate even after next FF Restart.
Firefox v62.0.2 (64-bit) userDeveloper response
posted 8 years agoHello, that still works fine on my side, I just verified to make sure with multiple Pause / Active sequences, and this is ok.
Could you open an issue here -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues
so that we track this down together on your config ?
Thank you, aaFn.
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Update: ok, glad this was only a glitch then, and thank you for coming back here to say.
Cheers, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14195070, 8 years agoGreat extension. Thank you very much for doing it and maintaining it. I must also highlight that the best thing I have seen about this extension is not the extension itself, which is great, but the very open, friendly and honest attitude of its developer. To me, this is the biggest asset of all and one that is not so common. That's why this project deserves full five stars, hands down, regardless of whatever minor imperfections that anyone may have mentioned earlier, which the developer has made honest efforts to fix within his/her power. Kudos!
Developer response
posted 8 years agoWelcome, and thank you for writing that, it feels good to read.
Extensions are to make life easier for FF users. So I am trying to get something which is fitting most of you as much as possible, while sticking to the initial goals of showing the path to bookmarks and of trying to remain as close to the native sidebar as possible, since an add-on cannot be in the native sidebar anymore after Quantum.
Hoping one day FF will integrate that much needed function, and so success for that add-on will be to disappear :-) In the interim, it may be here for long however :-D
Cheers, aaFn. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12655556, 8 years agoI have waited for so long for a replacement for "Go Parent Folder" and "Show Parent Folder" and had given up all hope of a decent bookmark system for Firefox.
Thank you for at last fixing Firefox's terrible bookmark management!!
Yayy!!
PS: Any chance of adding a replacement for Alice's "Undo Bookmarks Menu" to undo the last change to the menu? This would be very useful for those accidental mistakes where you drag and drop a folder or shortcut somewhere and it "disappears" - normally deep into some folder somewhere!Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank you. Interesting idea. Would you mind submitting it as an "issue" on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues so that I keep track of it and study if/when it would be easy to add ? - Rated 5 out of 5by Max1234-ITA, 8 years agoThis is a very nice addon, especially since the coming of Quantum has disrupted many extensions I used before :-(
It would be PERFECT if , in the search result pane, it was possible to edit all the bookmark fields (Name, Location, Tags, Keyword and Description), as in the native feature (currently, only "Name" and "Address" fields can be changed).
Another feature that is missing is a function allowing to sort alphabetically the bookmarks in the selected folder (the FF-native bookmark context menu allows this also).
Thanks for your work, anyway, keep it up!Developer response
posted 8 years agoHello Max1234-ITA, as soon as FF makes that available .. see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916 (but current FF developer comments on the bug do not leave a lot of hope for something coming soon .. :-( )
As for the sort, this is to come yes, although I didn't work out a plan yet. This is discussed here https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/43
Thank you, aaFn.
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"Sort by Name" is now available in 2.0.36. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13490222, 8 years agoOutstanding! That is what I've been looking for a long time. Very often you need not only search some bookmark, but also need to get a folder where it is located. This "plus" does all these things by fast and intuitive way. The all I did after install, just set up the option "After `Show bookmark`".
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13499256, 8 years agovery easy to use. great replacement for "show parent folder". minor wish - that it worked in "show all bookmarks" window, not just in sidebar, but doesn't detract from filling a need of something I've been missing. Thank you very much!
- Rated 5 out of 5by hansjok, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Sundevyl, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13418931, 8 years agoThank you for your hard work...been waiting for the parent folder features since we lost it in web extensions. Nice to have this functionality back. I can now remove my legacy ext. reminder to keep checking for it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 12272868, 8 years agoThank you for resurrecting the best add on for Firefox. I have a zillion bookmarks and folders and used to use Go Parent Folder all the time to find bookmarks. This add on does that and more. Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Hirschferkel, 8 years agoSearching for years to get this functionality back. It should be a basic feature of FireFox. Plugin works great!
- Rated 5 out of 5by irripod , 8 years agoI have already written a very positive review, but now I need to report a problem. Since the last update the add-on doesn't load, it only gives me the "Wait background load..." message, and that goes on forever. What should I do to make it work again, I wonder.
P.S.: Thanks for the answer. I have done what you asked for.
P.S.: Thank you for the quick fix – 2.0.29 works fine again.Developer response
posted 8 years agoHello irripod, can you open an issue here ?
https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues
I would need the traces contents (go to options panel for the add-on, and tick the "Activate trace" box. A readonly textarea should appear with an history of what happened.
Thanks, and sorry for the inconvenience, let's tackle it, aaFn.
PS: Hopefully bug corrected with 2.0.29 now, let me know, and sorry for the inconvenience. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14125892, 8 years agoHi!
Thanks for this extension. It does the job really fast, but it is quite invasive over the standard behavior of the bookmark side-bar :
- no more "right-click + key" accelerator in the pop-up menu ( for my "Frenchy localization" at least )
- reverting to the standard-mode resets the bookmarks view to the default view : so sad ... ( you should really do something about it )
Thanks again
Best, Stan
Edit : updated to FF 61 : create a folder works perfectly ! cool stuff !Developer response
posted 8 years agoHello Stan, I guess you mean key navigation in the menus ? Similarly you'll notice that key navigation doesn't exist (yet) on bookmarks either. I'll add that later (I made a note of it -> https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/46)
Indeed, because of limitations of the new Quantum extensions, the only way is to recreate the native interface, it cannot be extended anymore ... so it is imperfect (but improving ... ).
Not sure what you mean by "reverting to the standard-mode resets the bookmarks view to the default view", can you explain a little more ?
Note: on localization, I'll do French first, promis juré :-) - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13538810, 8 years agoWow. Works so well!! Great replacement for the outdated "Go Parent Folder / Show Parent Folder" add-ons. And I can finally search for folder names!! Great job.
Edit: Any way to assign Ctrl+B to bring up BSP2? (Or maybe assign it another shortcut key?)Developer response
posted 8 years agoHello, as a matter of fact there is a shortcut key (displayed in the sidebar menu since FF 60.0.1).
However Ctrl+B is already assigned to open the native bookmark sidebar and cannot be redirected.
So the following keys have been assigned from the few free left I could find:
- Linux = Ctrl+Shift+B
- MAC = Alt+B (Cmd+Alt+B doesn't match with authorized key pattern .. it is rejected)
- All others, including Windows = Ctrl+Q
Cf. https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/4 - Rated 5 out of 5by eggyolk, 8 years agoVery 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!Developer response
posted 8 years agoHello 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by EarthWindAndFirefox, 8 years agoFive 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. - Rated 5 out of 5by vitaaliy, 8 years agoUnique 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!
- Rated 5 out of 5by mantheakis, 8 years agoPhew. I really missed the old 'Go To Parent Folder' extension, and this add-on contains that functionality which makes it really useful!
- Rated 5 out of 5by ohillary, 8 years agoi 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.Developer response
posted 8 years agoThank 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 - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14019299, 8 years agoThis 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! - Rated 5 out of 5by Spencer Mathews, 8 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14012911, 8 years agogéniale. 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 !!
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14009808, 8 years agoThis really should be the way FF works out of the box. Thanks you.