275384 - Update Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[rw263]

Back in the days of Netscape Communicator there was a great feature that was
left out of Mozilla/Firefox. There should be an update bookmarks feature that
brings up a what's new menu. One can look for documents that have changed on all
bookmarks or selected bookmarks. When one started checking this information, the
icon of the bookmark would change if the page were updated since the last time
the bookmark was visited. It would be a nice feature to adjust the bookmark for
url changes or if a page no longer exists. The icon change for updates is a
great feature that really helps the user. It is the only reason I personally
have communicator still installed. Please add this enhancement so I can move on
in my browser world!!

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

There is an extension that does what you want. 
http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info/bookmarkchecker

Comment 2

[Jo Hermans]

Seamonkey bug 51207

Note that you used to be able to schedule updates of bookmarks in Firefox :
right-click on the bookmark (in the bookmark manager), and select 'Properties'.
Although bug 253478 has disabled it for Firefox 1.0, it will come back later in
Firefox 1.1. 

Comment 3

[rw263]

The bookmark checker that you refer to was not linked on the firefox site and 
hence did not see it. After trying to install it I get that Bookmark Link 
Checker 0.6.8 could not be installed because it is not compatible with this 
version of Firefox (Bookmark Link Checker 0.6.8 will only work with Firefox 
versions from 0.9 to 0.9.2+).

Can this be added to the core features of firefox?

Comment 4

[rw263]

I just figured out there was a new version of bookmark checker at 
http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=14. This seems to add an 
icon to the alt-bookmarks pull down menu, not the bookmarks manager folder, but 
this is a great start! Keep up the great work!!

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

=extension

unlikely to be added to default FF

WONT

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change