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Displays and filters bookmarks on search string, show parent folders. This is a Web Extension add-on version of the old "Bookmark search plus" XUL extension published by Alice0775, not working anymore in latest Firefox, and which was very useful.
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[Feature Request] Drag and drop bookmarks from the BSP2 sidebar of one Firefox instance into the BSP2 sidebar of another Firefox instance #304

Closed halejok closed 3 months ago

halejok commented 5 months ago

Hi, I usually have multiple Firefox instances (not windows) running simultaneously (versions from portableapps.com). Is it possible to implement drag and drop bookmarks from the BSP2 sidebar of one Firefox instance into the BSP2 sidebar of another Firefox instance? Regards, hjok

aaFn commented 5 months ago

Hello @halejok , indeed, right now this is failing because I am missing a firefox instance id to tell that a received drag&drop is coming from an exterior instance of Firefox, and not from our own instance.

I need to investigate if there is an easy way to detect that ..

aaFn commented 3 months ago

Hello @halejok, I found a way, and I implemented it in 2.0.128 which is out now.

Note that thanks to this, BSP2 allows you to do something which the native FF bookmark sidebar cannot do then :

to drag bookmarks from one FF instance to another (when you enabled several FF instances to run in parallel), giving users an easy way to export/import their bookmarks from one FF instance to another.

Let me know if any problem with the function. Thank you, aaFn.

halejok commented 3 months ago

Hello aaFn, Great! It works. Many thanks. Now I just thought of the following: Would it be possible for the 'Date added' to be transferred as well? For me, it's often important to know when a bookmark was created. Regards, hjok

aaFn commented 3 months ago

Hello @halejok , unfortunately that level of control is not given to add-ons, here is the API we get https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/CreateDetails

As you can see, we cannot set the 'Date added' (although I do transfer it, so I have it, it is just that I cannot set it ... 😿). It cannot be updated on this attribute as well https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/update