[Ext] Bookmark Tab Here (webextension)

[Speravir]

I am a happy user of your addon, but have one question:
Could the addon possibly made working in the bookmarks sidebar, as well?

[custom.firefox.lady]

I am a happy user of your addon, but have one question:
Could the addon possibly made working in the bookmarks sidebar, as well?

The webextension API for this doesn't work on the sidebar due to Bug 1419195. Someone submitted a patch a few weeks ago, hopefully he'll be back to finish it.

[Speravir]

Thanks for the pointer. Yes, let’s hope it gets fixed.

[custom.firefox.lady]

For those who are wanting to specify the name of the bookmark (or create new folder for bookmarks), I have a beta linked in the first post (viewtopic.php?f=48&t=3038053) which includes that ability. There is no way for webextensions to trigger the inbuilt add bookmark panel, so this uses a custom popup to allow entering that info.

[Quaraxkad]

Could you make the icon with a transparent background? It looks odd with a white background on a gray menu...

[custom.firefox.lady]

Could you make the icon with a transparent background? It looks odd with a white background on a gray menu...

Yes. thanks for reporting; not sure what happened, icons were intended to have a transparent background.

[Update] 1.0b2 is now out with this fixed. For those with additional contextmenu entries inserted by other addons, the icon should help locate the BTH item quickly. (See first post in thread for details/download.)

[Update 2] 1.0b3 changes the context menu entry icon to a simple star (with transparent background).

[Speravir]

The webextension API for this doesn't work on the sidebar due to Bug 1419195. Someone submitted a patch a few weeks ago, hopefully he'll be back to finish it.

And the fix landed in Firefox 66. Great! Now your addon is even better usable.

[Fulan]

Hello, I'm not sure this is the right place, anyway, I have a feature request:

Could you add an option for keeping the drop-down menu open after adding a bookmark with Bookmark tab here? This would allow one to add a bookmark twice (say, to two folders that are close one another) without having to navigate the whole tree again the second time, or add it and then move it up or down.

[custom.firefox.lady]

...Could you add an option for keeping the drop-down menu open after adding a bookmark with Bookmark tab here? This would allow one to add a bookmark twice (say, to two folders that are close one another) without having to navigate the whole tree again the second time, or add it and then move it up or down.

There is no available extension API for keeping the menu open in that manner. However, if you are on Firefox 66+, you can use the Bookmarks Sidebar for this (View > Sidebar > Bookmarks or Ctrl-B), as it stays open by default. There really should not be much need to move it up or down after insertion, as it is generally possible to insert it exactly where you want initially. (Right click an individual bookmark menuitem to insert bookmark of current tab below that item, as shown in the AMO page screenshot)

[Fulan]

you can use the Bookmarks Sidebar for this (View > Sidebar > Bookmarks or Ctrl-B), as it stays open by default.

I do use the sidebar sometimes. Its usefulness is hindered by the fact that type-ahead find (when you type the first characters of a bookmark to move to it) can only match up to the first space (I've asked about it on Discourse, so far without response), so in some cases the folder in which I want to place my bookmark is like the needle in the haystack.

There is no available extension API for keeping the menu open in that manner.

Well, nevermind then. Your extension is useful anyway. Thanks

[Fulan]

Hi,
Another thing came to my mind with a bit of use: could you make it work together with default-bookmark-folder, so that when default-bookmark-folder is set to use the last folder as the default one and a bookmark is created using Bookmark Tab Here, the default folder becomes the one in which Bookmark Tab Here has saved the bookmark?

I've asked for the same on default-bookmark-folder's issue-tracker, at https://github.com/teddy-gustiaux/defau ... /issues/77

[custom.firefox.lady]

@Fulan - I think BTH could send a msg to the other ext when a bookmark is set, which would allow the other ext to react to the msg as desired. So it's probably possible. I'd be willing to cooperate with the other ext's author if they are interested in such a feature, but this is a very busy time of year for me, so it's not likely to occur in the next few months.

[Cye3s]

Hi:
Useful addon! Could you add zh-CN locale please, thanks!
https://github.com/Cye3s/temp/blob/master/messages.json

[custom.firefox.lady]

... Could you add zh-CN locale please, thanks!

Will try to include it in next version, thanks for the translation.