Limitations & ToDo's - aaFn/Bookmark-search-plus-2 GitHub Wiki

LIMitations / TODO's:

  • TODO: Internationalization (i18n) of the UI with users who want to help. Currently only English available.

  • TODO: I have no Mac nor Open/FreeBSD, so cannot verify how this is behaving under them, and if there are also variations / different bugs there. I am hoping that since these are all BSD UNIX, this is similar or not far from Linux. Have to rely solely on user feedback for those operating systems.

  • TODO: Android (and Chrome OS also?). Are mobile users going to have that many bookmarks and install + make use of that extension? Again, will wait for user feedback.

  • TODO: Ignore favicon links when they are in comments when retrieving favicons from a page.
    (Since I am using a quick parser of my own, it is not semantical, and therefore it is misled when there are such rel= links inside comments <!-- -->, as it doesn't understand those links are commented out).
    This is a rare case, but it happens.
    For example: https://sol-resine.ooreka.fr/comprendre/resine-sol-garage
    and https://www.netgear.com/support/product/dg834gv3.aspx

  • LIM: When retrieving favicons, it seems that following redirects in fetch() is not perfect, and so we end up with network errors, while the normal browser on such a page gets to some other page and finds a favicon. Tried {redirect: "follow"} without success :-(

  • LIM: Did not find a way in Web Extension API's to open modal dialogs for "New bookmark.." and "New folder.." actions on context menus. So these are normal popups. Hope this won't be too much trouble.

  • LIM: it is not possible to get auto-focus on the search box when opening BSP2 sidebar https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502713

  • LIM: No access to the sqlite db of favicons. So I had to code myself the fetch of favicons from pages, and then save them into local storage for next time the sidebar is loaded. This could make initial load of the add-on quite active, and so I spaced retrieval actions so as to not overload the normal browser process. On next loads after initial, things are retrieved from local storage, so this is fast. Note: the web retrieval process is not based on 'http://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain_url=' as some other add-ons do, as I it can be seen as a privacy issue leaking info to google. Instead, I am retrieving the favicon URL from inside the bookmarked HTML page with my own quick parser as said above.

  • LIM: No management / display of bookmark tags, keywords, or description field, as Firefox does not expose those fields through its Web Extension API's. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225916 (vote for this bug!)

  • LIM: No way to synchronize the folders open state with the native FF bookmarks sidebar, or with the "All bookmarks" window, as this is not exposed by the Web Extension API's.

  • LIM: In FF integrated context menu mode (FF >= 64), it is not possible for now to highlight default actions in bold. So they are shown between "<" and ">". Note that the native FF bookmark sidebar does not highlight default actions (anymore ?).

  • LIM: The add-on works with FF56, however:

    • Separators are not perfectly managed with the add-on because of FF56 limitations.
    • It is not possible to create separators with the add-on, the function was made available in the FF API only from version 57.
    • Separators at end of a folder go undetected until there's something added after them in the bookmarks library in the native bookmark sidebar. Again goes away with FF57 and later.
    • Also, the BSP2 action button in the toolbar is doing nothing, because the API function of opening/closing the sidebar is only available with FF57 and higher. So I am disabling it under FF56. Please remove it from the toolbar manually when using FF56, as it is useless in that version (but there is no way in code to make it appear as a condition to the FF version. It is there for all, or not there for all :-( ).
    • Menus are not as rich as in later Firefox versions (>= FF64), in particular missing the Bookmark path and Advanced submenus.
    • There is no support for adapting to active theme colors below FF58, so the option is disabled.
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