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av Michael, 7 år siden***** Update:
I tried your suggestion. As soon as I click (left or right) within the search pane,, the folder pane scrolls to the source bookmark, just as I'd previously described, again obliterating the view of the target folder. So, I assume you meant right clicking in the folder pane, instead. (But the act of locating the bookmark in the folder pane still scrolls the target folder out of view, regardless of how one accomplishes it!)
(And as before, when moving a lot of related bookmarks at once, a massive amount of "seesawing" is required. [for example to move 26 bookmark search results
into a target folder, one would currently:
a) CLICK the search hit
(causing target folder to disappear from view due to scrolling),
b) cut,
c) locate target folder again,
d) paste,
<perform 25 more repetitions of steps a,b,c,d, one repetition of each of the
four steps for each of the remaining 25 bookmarks>
That adds up to 104 steps,
but the same results could be accomplished in three steps (selection, one cut, and one paste) with a change such as that described in item 3 below
] )
When I looked at the search pane's right click menu, I saw that it contains:
Show Bookmark
Go to parent folder
Open
<three other varieties of "Open">
but it does not contain "cut", unlike the right-click menu within the folder pane.
Although these two changes could make it unnecessary to keep locating the target folder over and over again,
[
1. When right clicking within the search pane, don't scroll the folder pane
(but still do so with left clicks)
2. Add "cut" to the search pane's right-click menu
],
. . .
an alternate version of that that approach would be immensely more useful:
3. in the search pane, instead of the above two changes:
3a. Allow use of a shift key modifier with left clicks to permit selecting
a range of search results prior to using "cut".
3b. When the shift key modifier is used with either left or right click,
just select - don't "act" (don't scroll the folder pane)
3c. Permit using a control key modifier with left clicks to select
non-contiguous search result "hits".
3d. Add "cut" to the search pane's right-click menu.
This change would permit moving multiple related bookmarks all at once to a single target folder using a single "cut" and a single "paste", and would solve the "back-and-forth" seesaw problem in a different manner than the one suggested in my first message.
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****** Original message:
Nice concept. Definitely more useful than the built-in bookmark manager.
I have one major problem using it. When trying to organize a large collection of existing bookmarks, I have significant difficulty moving bookmarks into different or new folders for the common case in which each bookmark and its new folder are at a greater distance from each other than can be displayed on the screen.
One thing that might make this be easier could be the ability to drag a bookmark directly from the search results. As it stands now, when one clicks on a search hit, doing so will scroll the tree display until the bookmark corresponding to the clicked search hit is displayed.
Unfortunately, scrolling the tree display for that purpose also has the side effect of scrolling the target folder off the screen, so that it is no longer directly accessible.
One can awkwardly get around the problem by using one of two methods:
Method One: drag the bookmark up to the boundary between the tree display and the search-box display and wiggle it over the boundary repeatedly, causing the tree display to slowly scroll upwards until the target folder comes back into view, and dropping it onto the target once it can finally be reached.
Method Two: Drag the bookmark upward to a point between the top two items visible in the tree view, then scrolling the tree view until it reaches the bottom of the screen. Do this repeatedly until the target folder comes into view, and then drag one last time into the target folder.
If one could drag directly from the search frame to the target folder, such scrolling could be avoided in the case where one is moving individual bookmarks located via search..
A more general approach might be to have a menu choice when right-clicking the target folder that would cause the folder to pop up as its own window, permitting one to move one or more items from various locations within the tree to the target without having to locate both the source and target each time to facilitate each move.
In case the popup would be an implementation hassle, perhaps instead a static (unaffected by scrolling the tree) frame displaying the target folder could be the result of selecting the aforementioned right-click menu choice (instead of popping up a window, that is).
[ Note: I had originally written "implementation drag", not "implementation hassle", but changed it upon being told that it might be misinterpreted as the result of a mouse action. ]
I tried your suggestion. As soon as I click (left or right) within the search pane,, the folder pane scrolls to the source bookmark, just as I'd previously described, again obliterating the view of the target folder. So, I assume you meant right clicking in the folder pane, instead. (But the act of locating the bookmark in the folder pane still scrolls the target folder out of view, regardless of how one accomplishes it!)
(And as before, when moving a lot of related bookmarks at once, a massive amount of "seesawing" is required. [for example to move 26 bookmark search results
into a target folder, one would currently:
a) CLICK the search hit
(causing target folder to disappear from view due to scrolling),
b) cut,
c) locate target folder again,
d) paste,
<perform 25 more repetitions of steps a,b,c,d, one repetition of each of the
four steps for each of the remaining 25 bookmarks>
That adds up to 104 steps,
but the same results could be accomplished in three steps (selection, one cut, and one paste) with a change such as that described in item 3 below
] )
When I looked at the search pane's right click menu, I saw that it contains:
Show Bookmark
Go to parent folder
Open
<three other varieties of "Open">
but it does not contain "cut", unlike the right-click menu within the folder pane.
Although these two changes could make it unnecessary to keep locating the target folder over and over again,
[
1. When right clicking within the search pane, don't scroll the folder pane
(but still do so with left clicks)
2. Add "cut" to the search pane's right-click menu
],
. . .
an alternate version of that that approach would be immensely more useful:
3. in the search pane, instead of the above two changes:
3a. Allow use of a shift key modifier with left clicks to permit selecting
a range of search results prior to using "cut".
3b. When the shift key modifier is used with either left or right click,
just select - don't "act" (don't scroll the folder pane)
3c. Permit using a control key modifier with left clicks to select
non-contiguous search result "hits".
3d. Add "cut" to the search pane's right-click menu.
This change would permit moving multiple related bookmarks all at once to a single target folder using a single "cut" and a single "paste", and would solve the "back-and-forth" seesaw problem in a different manner than the one suggested in my first message.
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****** Original message:
Nice concept. Definitely more useful than the built-in bookmark manager.
I have one major problem using it. When trying to organize a large collection of existing bookmarks, I have significant difficulty moving bookmarks into different or new folders for the common case in which each bookmark and its new folder are at a greater distance from each other than can be displayed on the screen.
One thing that might make this be easier could be the ability to drag a bookmark directly from the search results. As it stands now, when one clicks on a search hit, doing so will scroll the tree display until the bookmark corresponding to the clicked search hit is displayed.
Unfortunately, scrolling the tree display for that purpose also has the side effect of scrolling the target folder off the screen, so that it is no longer directly accessible.
One can awkwardly get around the problem by using one of two methods:
Method One: drag the bookmark up to the boundary between the tree display and the search-box display and wiggle it over the boundary repeatedly, causing the tree display to slowly scroll upwards until the target folder comes back into view, and dropping it onto the target once it can finally be reached.
Method Two: Drag the bookmark upward to a point between the top two items visible in the tree view, then scrolling the tree view until it reaches the bottom of the screen. Do this repeatedly until the target folder comes into view, and then drag one last time into the target folder.
If one could drag directly from the search frame to the target folder, such scrolling could be avoided in the case where one is moving individual bookmarks located via search..
A more general approach might be to have a menu choice when right-clicking the target folder that would cause the folder to pop up as its own window, permitting one to move one or more items from various locations within the tree to the target without having to locate both the source and target each time to facilitate each move.
In case the popup would be an implementation hassle, perhaps instead a static (unaffected by scrolling the tree) frame displaying the target folder could be the result of selecting the aforementioned right-click menu choice (instead of popping up a window, that is).
[ Note: I had originally written "implementation drag", not "implementation hassle", but changed it upon being told that it might be misinterpreted as the result of a mouse action. ]
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postet 7 år siden***** New update
Hello Michael, this is all implemented now in 2.0.42 which is out. Enjoy, or let me know :-)
See https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/66 (note: multi-selection will come later, it is yet a todo)
aaFn
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***** Update
Hello Michael, yes what you say / propose makes much sense. In particular, multi-selection (with Shift and Ctrl) is already planned, but I didn't do it yet.
Could we continue that discussion on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/66 ? I opened an issue there for that purpose, called "Allow Cut from Search pane". The one on multi-selection already exists as a ToDo.
That will be more practical to fine tune the elements, and to trace the dicussion in the right order :-)
Thank you, aaFn.
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****** Original message:
Hello Michael, interesting considerations and suggestions. I will have a think about it.
Meanwhile, there is a very simple way to do what you want:
- once you have located the bokmark you want to move, simply right click on it and click on "cut"
- then find the place where you want to move the bookmark, right click on that item, and click on "paste before" or "paste into" (the latter is only possible on a folder, and will move the bookmark at end of it).
That's it, the bookmark will move where you want.
Note that until you click "paste ", or until you right click "cut" or "copy" on another item, the initially cut bokmark is dimmed to signal that it is under a "cut" operation, but it will remain where it is, so there is no danger.
This is the same behavior as in the Native Bookmark sidebar.
Hope this helps, and again thank you for the ideas, aaFn.
Hello Michael, this is all implemented now in 2.0.42 which is out. Enjoy, or let me know :-)
See https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/66 (note: multi-selection will come later, it is yet a todo)
aaFn
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***** Update
Hello Michael, yes what you say / propose makes much sense. In particular, multi-selection (with Shift and Ctrl) is already planned, but I didn't do it yet.
Could we continue that discussion on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues/66 ? I opened an issue there for that purpose, called "Allow Cut from Search pane". The one on multi-selection already exists as a ToDo.
That will be more practical to fine tune the elements, and to trace the dicussion in the right order :-)
Thank you, aaFn.
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****** Original message:
Hello Michael, interesting considerations and suggestions. I will have a think about it.
Meanwhile, there is a very simple way to do what you want:
- once you have located the bokmark you want to move, simply right click on it and click on "cut"
- then find the place where you want to move the bookmark, right click on that item, and click on "paste before" or "paste into" (the latter is only possible on a folder, and will move the bookmark at end of it).
That's it, the bookmark will move where you want.
Note that until you click "paste ", or until you right click "cut" or "copy" on another item, the initially cut bokmark is dimmed to signal that it is under a "cut" operation, but it will remain where it is, so there is no danger.
This is the same behavior as in the Native Bookmark sidebar.
Hope this helps, and again thank you for the ideas, aaFn.
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- Vurdert til 3 ut av 5av sjapartments, én måned sidenThe extension works as expected. But when using Edge to import my Firefox bookmarks into Edge, many bookmarks do not get imported. Could this be because I used "Bookmarks search Plus 2" my Firefox bookmarks into multiple folder levels?
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postet én måned sidenHello sjapartments, no, the bookmarks created through BSP2 are fully standard, they are created using the Firefox API, so they are created by Firefox itself, and they do not differ from when they are created from the native bookmark sidebar.
There must be something else.
Maybe Edge has a bug in importing bookmarks from Firefox ? Cf. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/unable-to-import-bookmarks-favorites-from-firefox/539ce5d5-1e8a-4ea6-bc92-a6808de6a19d, you do not seem to be alone having problems - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 18954770, 3 måneder sidenBrilliant. This is what Firefox built-in bookmark management should provide, but Firefox deleted that good functionality from the codebase about 15 years ago and have never seen the need for bookmark management since. This developer has done an excellent job in fulfilling a need.
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- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av vlad a, ett år sidenThank you for continuing to support this extension!
My access to GitHub doesn’t work, hope you don’t mind my asking here:
(FireFox on Macbook)
• There is a delay of about 1 second when drag-n-dropping a link into a folder.
• Also, after “New Folder”, the first attempt at d&d’ing an existing Bookmark into it always fails and sometimes(?) calls up the link in the active tab.
• On “Bookmark Tab(s) Here”, when saving a bookmark into a new folder (ctrl-right click), the folder name is limited to 30 characters, whereas “New folder…” does not have this limit. For now, the workaround is to use the “Properties” submenu to change to a longer name. You told me (quite:) a while ago it would be easy to discard that limit, as I think you did for “New Folder…”. Could you please increase/discard this limit too?Utviklerrespons
postet ett år sidenHello @vlad, indeed it would be easier to continue the conversation on https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues, but let's see how far we can go here.
First, I do not have a Macbook, so I rely on a virtual MacOS in a VM, that might introduce differences.
Second, my MacOS VM is on Monterey 12.2.1, that might also be a difference with you.
Anyway, based on FF 129.0.1, and on BSP2 v2.0.129, I am not able to reproduce any of the 3 symptoms you mention:
- d&d of links or tabs or existing bookmarks in a folder, new or existing, is immediate, and no error on my side
- the second symptom makes me think of a regression I fixed in 2.0.129, can you make sure that you have the latest BSP2 version ?
- on the third, I must say I am puzzled .. the right click menu [not Ctrl-right click] has indeed "Bookmark Tab Here" [without the "(s)" part on "Tab", only one tab, the current one], but it does not ask for a folder name, it does not create one, and it has no limit to 30 characters on the folder name where the bookmark is created from the current tab, nor on the bookmark name itself. If you keep Ctrl pressed when clicking on the action, the properties menu opens on bookmark creation to ask you to modify the name, and here also, no 30 characters limit (and frankly, there was never such a limit in my code !).
So net is that I am not able to reproduce the problems, or maybe I need a litte more precision, sorry to be slow if so. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 13385186, ett år sidenThis is what Firefox's bookmark manager should've been. Love this addon
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Read and modify bookmarks
Read and modify browser settings
Access browsing history
Access browser tabs
Access browsing history
Store unlimited amount of client-side data
Access your data for all websites"
I'd say that's a bit much to ask for Simply being a bookmak search toolUtviklerrespons
postet ett år sidenHello @davey foxx, the need for each permission is explained here, in detail for each:
https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/wiki/Permissions-and-Privacy-policy
In short, these are mostly due to shortcomings or limitations in Firefox, unfortunately
(a number of them are depending on bugzilla's to be corrected so that I can drop the need for the authorization). - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av RKN, ett år siden
- Vurdert til 4 ut av 5av Firefox-bruker 15131334, ett år sidenexcellent tool. gave it 4 stars but it's 4.99. that missing 0.01 point is for the icon that i find a bit unaesthetic and doesn't compliment the usefulness of this tool. may i suggest you change it to a more minimalitic design that matches the mozilla icons? hope you will consider, would definetly bring it to a flawless 5 stars for me. thank you for making this great little tool.
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postet ett år sidenHello, thank you, any suggestion ? (if you can place that in https://github.com/aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2/issues)
My skills on icon design are not the best :-)
The idea is to keep a reference / similarity to the FF bookmarks icon, with something showing a "plus", and easily distinguishable from the standard FF bookmarks icon. - Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av Laura, ett år sidenThank 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 :)
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postet ett år sidenWelcome, 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 :-)
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postet 2 år sidenHello, 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 ?
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- Vurdert til 5 ut av 5av nur, 2 år sidenIndispensable 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.Utviklerrespons
postet 2 år sidenHello, 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.