Reviews for Bookmark Dupes
Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth
Review by Sperling943
Rated 5 out of 5
by Sperling943, 6 years agoPerfect for removing duplicates and empty folders. Thank You so much for this extension I would love to give something back via IBAN or in some other way. Really solved all my bookmarks problems. Only small issue I found that not all empty folders were removed in one go. (I guess it does not remove folders with empty folders inside) Otherwise really just awesome extension. Thanks again!
Developer response
posted 6 years agoIndeed, a folder is not empty if it contains a folder (no matter whether the inner folder is empty).
Theoretically, one could list those "recursively empty" folders but in practice there are several problems with that: One would have to couple implicitly selections of folders to be deleted (which might be confusing), the order in which folders are deleted becomes less transparent, and last but not least, some people would like to keep the "outer" structure of folders.
Instead of presenting a more complicated/confusing user interface, it was therefore a design decision to just possibly require several "clean empty folder" steps: The maximal number of repetitions necessary is the length of the deepest path consisting only of empty folders. In practice this should be far less than 10.
Theoretically, one could list those "recursively empty" folders but in practice there are several problems with that: One would have to couple implicitly selections of folders to be deleted (which might be confusing), the order in which folders are deleted becomes less transparent, and last but not least, some people would like to keep the "outer" structure of folders.
Instead of presenting a more complicated/confusing user interface, it was therefore a design decision to just possibly require several "clean empty folder" steps: The maximal number of repetitions necessary is the length of the deepest path consisting only of empty folders. In practice this should be far less than 10.