Why do you started to deduplicate the bookmarks in the recent releases? It is insultingly patronizing!
Hello Mozilla, I am extremely upset about one of the latest changes in the past year regarding the functionality of firefox, and it's no surprise that the Mozilla engineers did it again (!) with the bookmarks functionality. Do you get bored and try from time to time to destroy useful functionality with Firefox? First time was when Mozilla removed "Save All Bookmarks" from the Bookmarks menu option, now available only through a tips-and-tricks shortcut knowledge (right click on an existing tab).
But with the latest bookmarks deduplication "feature" Mozilla is going forward to further destroy my trust and respect for it, unless it takes a step back from the arrogance of their engineering that is trying to interfere and change the interface of firefox, most disturbingly it is trying to change the behavior of their customers by saying them how, what and where their bookmarks should lie. Please, stay away from trying to tell me that I cannot have multiple instances of the same HTTP address/bookmark in different bookmark folders the way I want to organize them. Does it take too much of my own storage space if I want to create several profiles, export the bookmarks history, are you concerned about that? If you really want to be useful with respect to the optimization and/or efficiency in this respect, maybe you should allow a way to split the bookmarks in several export HTML files.
Therefore, PLEASE stay away from the bookmarks!!!
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I'm running v34.0 - the same as you, but on Win7, and have no trouble duplicating bookmarks with Copy and Paste.
That's not new. Been like that since Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008, when the "Tags" feature was added along with the new SQLIte database system for "Places".
Scribe_uk said
I'm running v34.0 - the same as you, but on Win7, and have no trouble duplicating bookmarks with Copy and Paste.
It doesn't work for all the cases. Actually, I do not know what do you mean by duplicating bookmarks, that means that you have the corresponding Bookmarks menu available in order to "duplicate", or the second time that menu option is not actually available anymore. You may use the Bookmarks -> "Edit This Bookmark" which you can move it from where it was before. But I seriously do not want it to move from where I have previously saved it. I actually consider this "feature" as a data integrity breach. My bookmarks history has 1000+ bookmark folders over a 2 years span, each may have up to hundreds of bookmark web addresses. Because sometimes I come along some old bookmarks I may want them to be shown in different bookmark folders without affecting the previous bookmark (foilder) savings. Do I need the Mozilla big brother to tell me that I cannot use something that was previously a naturally occurring feature?
the-edmeister said
That's not new. Been like that since Firefox 3.0 was released in June 2008, when the "Tags" feature was added along with the new SQLIte database system for "Places".
I don't really care that it was there before, if Mozilla thinks it is a "great feature" because dedup is a funky concept they could advertise its usefulness and allow configuring it. If I do not want it, actually if I despise it, I do not want it to be enforced forcefully against my usage of Firefox, (see my response to the above Reply for more information). With this, my experience with Firefox goes into an abusive one which may break the inertia based loyalty habits.
This is a second time I am being upset in relation to the bookmarks usage, first time it was around 3.6 version with 'Save All Bookmarks" which somebody really confused from Mozilla thought it is not useful to be anymore part of the Bookmarks menu options. Does anybody from the Firefox team really use this product?
From my previous experience with Mozilla I do not have any more faith that somebody from Mozilla gives a damn about users' feedback.
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