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teddy-gustiaux / default-bookmark-folder

WebExtension allowing you to choose the default bookmark location folder and quickly bookmark pages via a dedicated icon.
https://goo.gl/WtfpPH
MIT License
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Current and future state of the project #553

Open teddy-gustiaux opened 7 months ago

teddy-gustiaux commented 7 months ago

It has been some time since I shared news about this project, and since the last release. This post intends on providing you with a quick update on both items.

TL;DR:

The last release of the add-on was back in 2021, on the heels of the internal bookmarking changes that happened back then in Firefox (see issue 399 for more details). This project is something I maintain in my spare time, and since that last release, it was difficult to find time to work on it. This was not made any easier by the fact that trying to resolve the issues introduced with these changes would be quite an involved task.

Thankfully, I eventually reached a solution that I considered reliable enough to bring to a public release. While the new system is not perfect, and will never be, a lot of work has been put in to rewrite the internal add-on logic to try and address issues introduced with the 3.x branch of the add-on (themselves related to the Firefox internal bookmarking changes aforementioned).

I consider the project to be mostly feature-complete at this point. While I may consider new features, my priority will be on bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. I would also like to offer some of the capabilities of the add-on via their own standalone extension, as not everybody is interested in all of the features (I have started with quick-bookmarking last year). All of this will be happening at a pace that is compatible with my available time as the sole maintainer- hopefully with more regular releases.

Finally, I hope you will find this new version to be a positive improvement. Thank you for your continued interest and support! I will be updating this when the 4.0.0 version is submitted for review to Mozilla and published.

teddy-gustiaux commented 7 months ago

Update: version 4.0.0 has been submitted to Mozilla for review.

teddy-gustiaux commented 7 months ago

Update: version 4.0.0 was reviewed and approved by Mozilla, and has been published on AMO. The update should gradually happen automatically for users, or you can force it manually.

nuenuewei commented 6 months ago

The drag and drop bug is still requiring me to remain on version 2.13.0, which still does not contain that bug. Apparently it's been decided that people who drag and drop into folders to organize their bookmarks are space aliens, and there's a limit to how much I can complain about something free, so I guess I just hope someone will eventually fork the working version and backport any important updates.