Bookmark Notes
Store notes with bookmarks, a la pre-Firefox-62.
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| Date | Author | Rating | Comment |
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| 2023-01-25 | igorlogius | | |
| 2020-10-27 | jaybeegee | | PSA: MEMORY LEAK ALERT! DO NOT INSTALL THIS EXTENSION. Date of review - 2020-10-27 Version reviewed - 1.2.1 Size 20.89 KB Last updated 2 years ago (Oct 17, 2018) License Mozilla Public License, version 2.0 As the developer notes on the github(https://github.com/wincohi/bookmark-notes), "this extension is not currently being maintained! Apologies for the inconvenience." And it shows. Importing a previous html bookmark file using the default Firefox "Import and Backup" tool, will result in a Firefox having a memory leak until your system or Firefox crashes. This happens even if you aren't using the extension and merely have the extension enabled. Also moving large sets of bookmarks between folders results in your browser freezing and also consuming a lot of memory. I would ordinarily post a detailed review but the above memory leak/firefox freeze drawback pretty much renders this extension(at least in my book), not even worth any further consideration. Move on people. Don't install this. I implore you. The "Name:" space for default browser bookmark has a 4096 character limitation. Yes, I measured. That's what I'm using as my new bookmark "Description/Notes". And if it exceeds that limit, I create the same bookmark once again(Ctrl+C Ctrl+V) and continue my "notes" in the "Name:" field of the 2nd bookmark. If only Firefox hadn't killed the perfectly innocuous bookmark descriptions feature. :( |
| 2020-07-29 | Lisa H. | | It kind of works - it does perform the basic function of storing a note or description for your bookmarks. But there are a lot of issues: * It was tricky to import notes in the first place. It seemed not to be doing anything. A progress bar or other sort of indicator would help. * Seems to only work at certain window sizes. Its sidebar wouldn't open when I had the window snapped to half-width (at 1920x1080). * Does not recognize new bookmarks as soon as they are made. You must close and reopen the sidebar to be able to add a note. * Can't add notes at folder level. * Filter/search should display results in a list manner similar to history, rather than having to click through and dig to find individual hits. * No way to delete notes. You can blank out the text, but the blue icon indicating the presence of a note remains. * Takes several seconds of apparently doing nothing to load the bookmarks when opening the sidebar. * Sometimes will only load notes on first open, or close and reopen - sometimes if you change to History or Bookmarks in its menu and then back to Notes, nothing loads. * In Other Bookmarks, I got a lot of empty descriptions erroneously imported (they really were empty, not a single space character or anything like that) that can't be deleted. |
| 2019-11-30 | Firefox user 15458120 | | Added 4/24/2020: After living with the outdated Firefox Ver. 60.xxESR for many months I finally felt I needed to update to a new version in spite of losing easy access to all my bookmark notes. I backed them up and planned on accessing them as an html file in Kompozer. I then upgraded to the current standard Firefox version and with crossed fingers took another shot at adding BOOKMARK NOTES. Lo and behold it came up correctly and imported all my bookmarks on the first try. It's been several days now and it is still working properly. As such, at least for now, I'm upgrading my rating to 4 stars. If not for the nasty experience 5 months ago I would have given it 5. If it continues to work problem free over the coming months I'll likely come back and step up my rating to 5 stars. I don't know why it wouldn't work right before and it now since there is no recent update listed. Perhaps it's a change in something on my PC or in the newest version of Firefox. I'll keep my fingers crossed it continues to work well. ORIGINAL REVIEW BELOW Works then doesn't work. Sometimes it will have the Firefox bookmarks showing and then the next time I start Firefox they won't be there. Sometimes when the bookmarks are showing the notes are there and sometimes the note fields are empty. There is no rhyme or reason to when it is working correctly and when it isn't. I've installed and uninstalled various past versions of Firefox in order to try and get it to work consistently and current or past versions, standard or esr, don't seem to make any difference. When it works its great. I like it better than the embedded notes system in the older Firefox versions. However I've given up on trying to use it. The last straw was after shutting down the PC with the Bookmark Notes working properly last night, and then turning on the PC this morning and finding the notes were all gone again. I had to restart Firefox 60.0.9 esr several times before the bookmarks showed up, and then they didn't have the notes.....again. I did one last upgrade to the current non-esr version and while Bookmark Notes showed the bookmarks there were no notes in the note field......again. That was it. I was done wasting time trying to make this thing work. |
| 2019-11-05 | Firefoxer | | Frage: Wie exportiere ich wiederum meine neu erstellten Notes aus den "Bookmark Notes"? Es gibt zwar eine Import-Funktion von den alten Firefox-Bookmarks, aber wie exportiere ich nun die neuen "Bookmark-Notes" für ein anderes Gerät? Wenn ich jetzt nur die Firefox-Bookmarks exportiere (.html or .json), sind dort keine Notes mehr gespeichert. Also wo werden die Notes jetzt mit "Bookmark Notes" gespeichert??? Außerdem werden die Notes manchmal angezeigt und manchmal nicht. Manchmal sind neu gespeicherte Notes beim nächsten Start von Firefox einfach wieder verschwunden. Manchmal werden auch überhaupt keine Bookmarks angezeigt, dann ist die Liste komplett leer. Was nun leider mein aktueller Stand ist. Ich bekomme die Notes nun überhaupt nicht mehr angezeigt. Schlimmstenfalls sind sie nun sogar komplett verloren. Ich weiß wirklich nicht mehr was hier los ist. Jetzt funktioniert überhaupt nichts mehr und eine Sicherung gibt es ja auch nicht (weil man einfach keine anlegen kann). Sind die Probleme bekannt? Kommen meine Notes nochmal irgendwie zum Vorschein? --- Noch eine Frage (Nachtrag): Kann es sein, daß alle Notizen in "Bookmark Notes" gelöscht werden, wenn man die komplette Chronik bereinigt (also auch mit Website-Daten)? Ich glaube schon, denn aus irgendeinem Grund sind nun alle Daten weg. Und das ist kein Spaß, das ist Horror! Sowas muß unbedingt kommuniziert werden, denn ich habe hier in ein paar Kommentaren weiter unter mir dasselbe Problem gelesen. Und es ist leider auch eine Zumutung, wenn den Autor die Probleme anscheinend nicht ansatzweise interessieren. Dann bitte dieses Add-On löschen und nicht mehr bereitstellen! Ich nutze nun für die Notes zusätzlich noch Palemoon, da der Browser die Grundstruktur von Firefox verwendet und dort auch immer noch die Notes existieren. Was sich natürlich auch in Zukunft ändern kann. Trotzdem ist es vorerst viel sicherer als mit Bookmark Notes, da man mit Palemoon auch weiterhin die Favoriten mit der Beschreibung sichern kann (im Firefox-Format). Eine andere Lösung sehe ich zurzeit nicht, es sei denn, Mr. Jase klärt endlich mal auf, wo die Beschreibung nun gespeichert wird und wie man sie sichern kann. Sonst hat dieses ganze Add-on überhaupt keinen Sinn. Auch mit Sync kann man sich nicht darauf verlassen, daß wirklich auch die Beschreibungen mit synchronisiert werden, denn auch das hat bei mir nicht geklappt. Also eine Backup-Funktion würde schon vieles retten. Aber so geht das hier überhaupt nicht. Vor allem, wenn hier nichts mehr getan wird, denn dann geht irgendwann viel Arbeit verloren und das braucht nunmal kein Mensch. |
| 2019-10-26 | roving14 | | I exported my bookmarks to HTML, but now I can't find any way to import them to this extension. I'm rating this poorly for lack of clear functions. I use the descriptions to save location data and contact information for companies, people, etc., very useful and would be inconvenient to store away from the web URL. |
| 2019-08-06 | Firefox user 15189485 | | Cannot read or write notes in folder. Its created and appear at the side of the browser page which obstruct and lessen my browser view. If you want to read your old notes in bookmark folders, then this extension cannot help you. |
| 2019-03-14 | Mietscha | | |
| 2019-02-26 | Firefox user 10400991 | | |
| 2019-01-17 | Firefox user 14569494 | | Good try, but doesn't work. Syncs a few bookmark notes on a virgin install, but after I import my original file with a hundred notes, sync doesn't work. Developer seems to have lost interest. |
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