Can I look for a word in the description of a bookmark?
When I add a bookmark, I often add a description. Another reason why a lot of my bookmarks have descriptions, is that I am a former Delicious user and I have imported those bookmarks into Firefox. So I would like to search words that I have written in the description, because the description is often more meaningful than the tag, the name or the URL. But unfortunately Firefox does not look in the description when searching through the bookmarks. Neither do I find any extension.
चुने गए समाधान
A bookmarks HTML backup includes descriptions, so you could open such a backup in a tab and use the Find bar to search the page.
You can make Firefox create an automatic HTML backup (bookmarks.html) when you exit Firefox if you set the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML pref to true on the about:config page.
That backup is created by default in the profile folder as bookmarks.html every time you close Firefox, but you can set the file name and path via the browser.bookmarks.file pref on the about:config page.
The browser.bookmarks.file pref doesn't exist by default and you need to create a new String pref with the name browser.bookmarks.file and set the value to the full path of the backup bookmarks file including the file name.
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Unfortunately this functionality does not exist. As a former del.icio.us user myself, I would love a better bookmark solution. Let me know if you find one!
चयनित समाधान
A bookmarks HTML backup includes descriptions, so you could open such a backup in a tab and use the Find bar to search the page.
You can make Firefox create an automatic HTML backup (bookmarks.html) when you exit Firefox if you set the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML pref to true on the about:config page.
That backup is created by default in the profile folder as bookmarks.html every time you close Firefox, but you can set the file name and path via the browser.bookmarks.file pref on the about:config page.
The browser.bookmarks.file pref doesn't exist by default and you need to create a new String pref with the name browser.bookmarks.file and set the value to the full path of the backup bookmarks file including the file name.
cor-el द्वारा सम्पादित
I chose a workable work-around as solution, because a perfect solution does not seem to exist (strangely enough). The chosen solution has some drawbacks: - it's not possible to use the bookmarks side bar; - you do not get an overview based on your search criteria, but you have to use the find bar to go from one item to another; - I sync my addons, but I guess that I have to do the described procedure on every Firefox instance that I am using; - the bookmarks.html file is only updated when Firefox is closed; with all the hibernation features of today's operating systems, that does not happen all to often.
Being a software developer myself, I should perhaps consider to write a proper extension/add-on/plug-in myself. But because I have right now no idea about the amount of work that is needed to implement a typical add-on, I don't know whether I will find the time to do that.