Why don't they fix the broken Bookmark Manager?

Problem:
You cannot delete/view properties/what else? on a bookmark you have in
the right-hand pane if it got there when you search the bookmarks.

Why I would want to:
To delete dupes.

Other solutions:
I have tried some bookmark extension found on the mozilla site, that
supposedly was about finding dupes, but it was far too buggy to even
consider. E.g. I couldn't even add a single bookmark anymore.

Are there any solutions to this problem? Other than first search for the
bookmark and then trying to locate where it is stored?

I'd like to see the current bookmark manager renamed to bookmark finder,
which is all it can do.


Faun

 

Interesting... I have no problems performing such tasks.

A simple solution is to choose where you want to store a bookmark when
bookmarking a site. You can even create new bookmark folders to store
commonly used ones.

 

What version of Mozilla are you using?

 

This drives me crazy as well (I'm using FF 1.0.6, but this has been an
issue with every version of FF, as well as Mozilla, that I'm aware of).
Maybe it's not that big a deal for those who have a modestly-sized
bookmark file, but if you have a large one that's been assembled over a
long period of time, it's a major hassle when you're trying to remove
multiple duplicate bookmarks.

I really wish the Bookmark Manager's search function allowed the option
of navigating directly to the first search result in the Bookmark pane
(like every version of Netscape I ever used) instead of generating a new
pane with all of the search results.

Dave

 

Are you using some extra stuff with it? Like some extension?

Dare I say it? Duh! ;-) Been there, done that. I have most of my
bookmarks sorted perfectly, but there are some dupes that eludes me. And
since the bookmark manager won't allow me to delete what it has found,
nor does it report where the found bookmarks are, it's a tad annoying.
Searching through a 300k+ bookmark file manually, with thousands of
bookmarks, isn't so easy as it may sound.

If nothing pops up, I think I'll have to open it in notepad or something
and search from there. After all, it's just an html file...


F.

 

Sorry, forgot that info:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Firefox/1.0.4

But the problem has really been there since I first started using Fx,
like back on version 0.7 or something.

I hope it's not that I still maintain the same bookmark file I had back
then, I wouldn't want to trash it and start anew. Thousands of bookmarks
would be lost.


F.

 

No extensions. I use ff as installed from the installer.

I don't understand why you can't delete dups..

Go to program files_mozilla-firefox_defaults_profile

This is where ff stores its bookmarks.

 

I hear ya....... I wrote to the Mozilla team asking if they would
consider adding a search feature from within the Bookmark Manager.
I never heard back but it doesn't seem like that should be a very big
deal to implement. It's probably just not high on their list of
priorities.

Cody

 

Il Sat, 30 Jul 2005 20:48:10 +0200, Faun ha scritto:

Check if this extension can help:
"Locate in Bookmark Folders 0.2.1"
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&category=Bookmarks&id=622

 

I use the following extensions with Firefox 1.0.6.

Enhanced Bookmarks Search 0.1.3.02
Locate in Bookmark Folders 0.2.1

 

Looks like you get all you'd ever wish for & more in Deer Park Alpha 2

 

Aha, at least one that agrees with me.

I tried this extension earlier that supposedly would prevent duplicate
bookmarks from ever being entered into the bookmark file. Sounded too
good to be true...and, sure enough, it was. It prevented dupes, alright,
together with _any_ bookmark. "[Curtain] AUTHOR! AUTHOR!" Yeah, right...


F.

 

Nah, I think they like to mess with people's minds. "Let's think
something up that will drive everybody crazy." And then they sit around,
drinking beer, laughing about it.


F.

 

I'll check it out. Thanks.


F.

 

Huh? What't that? Sounds like game to me...


F.

 

I'll check those out, although, <>,
told me about "Locate [...]" in another article.

Thanks.


F.

 

Neither can I. That's why I'm here...


F.

 

Deer Park is the development codename for Firefox 1.5 (it used to be
1.1, but they recently decided to change version numbers). Your
reaction is, incidentally, exactly what Mozilla.org wants---they're
using a codename because they don't want consumers thinking the testing
releases are real Firefox upgrades.

Mozilla (and open-source software in general) release dates are never
very reliable, but Fx 1.5 should be out sometime this year. They were
saying this summer (northern hemisphere), but it's now looking more like
fall or winter. Anyway, 1.5 is supposed to repair a lot of the stuff
people have been griping about in 1.0, like having to download the whole
program over again for every little security update, and the
half-functional extension manager.

 

Aha, on that page we get an explanation for the broken bookmark manager:

"Developer Comments:
Provides a temporary workaround for Firefox Bug 255255: "after searching
bookmarks, the results are not editable".
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255255"

As they say, it's a workaround.


F.

 

That's silly. The alpha keyword would be enough. Morons who think
otherwise can just sod off. I guess there are too many ie porn googlers
switching, the same ones who can't be bothered with reading about what
it is they download, just clicking on.


F.