Reviews for Bookmark Dupes
Bookmark Dupes by Martin Väth
Review by Wireball
Rated 4 out of 5
by Wireball, 6 years agoBookmark Dupes removed over thirteen thousand* duplicate bookmarks in about ten minutes. The multi-select is awesome. Remove all but the newest, for example.
My only regret is that it doesn't *seem* to support merging the contents of folders with the same names. After deleting empty folders, I have two hundred folders remaining with various different assortments of bookmarks in them, but most of the folder names are duplicated over five times :)
*-(Some people might be wondering how I ended up with so many duplicates to begin with. Xmarks and to a lesser extent Sync had some problems merging bookmark sets with large numbers of changes between different computers. A few browser crashes while syncing didn't help. That led to huge amounts of bookmark and folder duplication.)
My only regret is that it doesn't *seem* to support merging the contents of folders with the same names. After deleting empty folders, I have two hundred folders remaining with various different assortments of bookmarks in them, but most of the folder names are duplicated over five times :)
*-(Some people might be wondering how I ended up with so many duplicates to begin with. Xmarks and to a lesser extent Sync had some problems merging bookmark sets with large numbers of changes between different computers. A few browser crashes while syncing didn't help. That led to huge amounts of bookmark and folder duplication.)
Developer response
posted 6 years ago> merging the contents of folders with the same names
Merging/Removing duplicate bookmark *folders* is IMHO a rather different task than removing bookmarks.
(Actually, I consider already the option to "move" instead of removing the bookmarks a questionable feature.) It would require a completely different UI.
Currently, it is not implemented, and I have neither plans nor time to implement it (if somebody really wants to implement it, please contact me by pm or on github.)
Concerning the bug that the moving does copying instead of moving: I cannot reproduce it.
Technically, it uses this function https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/move and if this does not do the claimed thing, I would say it is a firefox bug (which should be reported to firefox), or perhaps you have some strange folder which is e.g. immediately re-filled by some other extension or something similar I cannot reproduce.
But it seems that this part was removed from your comment, so perhaps you could not reproduce either.
If you can, please report details about the bug on github (or send me a pm).
Merging/Removing duplicate bookmark *folders* is IMHO a rather different task than removing bookmarks.
(Actually, I consider already the option to "move" instead of removing the bookmarks a questionable feature.) It would require a completely different UI.
Currently, it is not implemented, and I have neither plans nor time to implement it (if somebody really wants to implement it, please contact me by pm or on github.)
Concerning the bug that the moving does copying instead of moving: I cannot reproduce it.
Technically, it uses this function https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/move and if this does not do the claimed thing, I would say it is a firefox bug (which should be reported to firefox), or perhaps you have some strange folder which is e.g. immediately re-filled by some other extension or something similar I cannot reproduce.
But it seems that this part was removed from your comment, so perhaps you could not reproduce either.
If you can, please report details about the bug on github (or send me a pm).
505 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by Chancho, 4 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18831572, 22 days agosimply amazing addon. A few clicks and my toolbar is dupe free and empty folder free as well!
- Rated 5 out of 5by 退出党团队远离中共邪教, a month ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18018486, a month agoworked perfect to delete 4631 duplicates introduced somehow by some sync problem
- Rated 5 out of 5by ThatNormalBunny, 2 months agoFound all duplicates and after selecting which ones to delete, deleted them all without any issues
- Rated 5 out of 5by hkpd, 2 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Jorge Luis, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Jamie, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18669587, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17790952, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by hellosociety, 5 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by inmyopinion, 5 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18628471, 5 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by schlagmichdoch, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CKA, 7 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18535999, 7 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Pablo Vieira, 7 months agoI can see duplicates in front of my very eyes. The addon reports "zero found"...
Reply to developer's reply: I just used "Bookmarks clean up" by itwillnotbeasy and it worked like a charm. You might reconsider your current algorithm. Asking users to enter an "expert" mode AND advising to proceed with care is really bad UX design.Developer response
posted 7 months agoAre you sure that they have exactly the same URL, symbol by symbol, up to the very end? Otherwise you might need to use the “Expert mode“ to ignore different aspects of the URL or to use another criteria than the URL to determine duplicates. However, I would not advise you to do so unless you exactly understand what you are doing in this mode, as this might consider much more bookmarks as duplicates than you would like to.
Reply to your reply: By design, the extension does what it says, namely removing duplicate bookmarks. If you want something else - removing *similar* bookmarks - you can get this feature in expert mode; but it lies in the nature of things that this is a very dangerous feature. Especially if you do not understand exactly what is "similar" by the regular expressions you chose, chances are high that you remove bookmarks you actually wanted to keep. If it worked for your use case, that's fine for you, but unless you re-check very carefully manually, chances are high that you remove too much this way.