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kt199bs
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I love the product but I have three issues I would like to suggest could be improved

1) when using Search Bookmarks, I would be useful to show which subfolder a link is stored in. This would be beneficial when there are duplicates and deciding which bookmark(s) to keep or how to improve grouping

2) my workaround was to Export Bookmarks to HTML and use a text editor to search However, the HTML file has a huge overhead of ICON data. It would be nice to disable ICON data or remove it completely. I test saved 2 bookmarks to a 16Kb file, after manually stripping the ICON data the file contained 467 bytes. My normal Bookmarks folder is near 400Mb which appears to be held in memory, reducing overall performance when Firefox is running. Removal/exclusion of ICON data would make this closer to 12Mb

3) the View Cache feature is very helpful but I believe it would be beneficial if the columns could be selected as the Sort By source (instead of just the date). When trying to save cache files like images or videos, sorting by size or type would be a huge benefit.

I am a retired software developer and would love to look into these things, However I think the overhead of understanding your code and tools could take too long to be beneficial. I suspect you probably feel the same about my list :-)

Thanks for your considerations

I love the product but I have three issues I would like to suggest could be improved 1) when using Search Bookmarks, I would be useful to show which subfolder a link is stored in. This would be beneficial when there are duplicates and deciding which bookmark(s) to keep or how to improve grouping 2) my workaround was to Export Bookmarks to HTML and use a text editor to search However, the HTML file has a huge overhead of ICON data. It would be nice to disable ICON data or remove it completely. I test saved 2 bookmarks to a 16Kb file, after manually stripping the ICON data the file contained 467 bytes. My normal Bookmarks folder is near 400Mb which appears to be held in memory, reducing overall performance when Firefox is running. Removal/exclusion of ICON data would make this closer to 12Mb 3) the View Cache feature is very helpful but I believe it would be beneficial if the columns could be selected as the Sort By source (instead of just the date). When trying to save cache files like images or videos, sorting by size or type would be a huge benefit. I am a retired software developer and would love to look into these things, However I think the overhead of understanding your code and tools could take too long to be beneficial. I suspect you probably feel the same about my list :-) Thanks for your considerations

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Hi,

The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers. If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Submit Feedback... or use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

You can also file a bug report or feature request. See File a bug report or feature request for Mozilla products for details.

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Paul
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Hi,

The people who answer questions here, for the most part, are other users volunteering their time (like me), not Mozilla employees or Firefox developers. If you want to leave feedback for Firefox developers, you can go to the Firefox Help menu and select Submit Feedback... or use this link. Your feedback gets collected by a team of people who read it and gather data about the most common issues.

You can also file a bug report or feature request. See File a bug report or feature request for Mozilla products for details.

cor-el
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You can open the Bookmarks HTML file in a Firefox tab and run this bookmarklet to remove the ICON data. You can create a new bookmark and paste the JavaScript code in its URL field. You can possibly add more attributes ('ICON,ICON_URI'). Save the page as 'Web Page, complete'. 

javascript:(function(){var a='ICON'.split(','),A,e=document.getElementsByTagName('a'),E,i,j,z=0;for(i=0;E=e[i];i++){for(j=0;A=a[j];j++){if(E.hasAttribute(A)){E.removeAttribute(A);z++}}}alert('Ready, removed "'+(a)+'": '+z)})();