Undo bookmark delete

[RichardT]

Sometimes I delete a bookmark by mistake: It would be nice to be able to undo a deleted bookmark.

[Anonymous]

`CTRL-Z` works for that

[jscher2000]

Hi Richard, there is a way, but it's not convenient.

You need to open the Library window (Ctrl+Shift+O as in "Organizer"; on Mac, I assume it's Command+Shift+O).

The Library window has an Organize menu which includes Undo.

It surely would be handier to have it on the right-click context menu below "Delete bookmark"!

[RichardT]

"`CTRL-Z` works for that"

That's amazing, it works. Thanks so much.

[Anonymous]

@RichardT @jscher2000 @Anonymous  Hi all! How are you guys? What do you guys think of this idea? This could be resolved if there was an autosave option, where in case I delete a favorite, I can simply recover old versions

[RichardT]

@jscher2000

Re your "The Library window has an Organize menu which includes Undo."

Wow, that's amazing. I never clicked on that Organize menu button. That's even easier than reaching for the keyboard for a Ctrl-z. Thanks for taking the time to write to me.

You're right, though, it would be more convenient to have "undo bookmark delete" on the right-click context menu.

[RichardT]

@Anonymous 

Ctrl-z works just fine to undo a bookmark delete. The Organize menu Undo works even better. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

@RichardT Thanks for the feedback ;D

[ponyhub]

Problems encountered: We sometimes delete favorite bookmarks by mistake. Now Firefox does not have anything similar to history. It can only restore previous versions like git, which will cause some versions not to be calculated according to the timestamp. There will be a certain delay. It may happen that I have added a few bookmarks after deleting a few bookmarks. This operation may be put into a version, but in fact, I just want to restore the few bookmarks I deleted. One of them, so I need to do the work of repeating the wheel building, delete the ones I want to delete, and add the bookmarks I added before, and the domain names of some websites are difficult to remember, and I need to go through them. Checking the history records and then restoring and adding tags one by one is very troublesome and the user experience is extremely poor.

Suggested optimization: I hope to provide a more fine-grained visual operation page, you can refer to the function of historical browsing records, and on this basis, create a page that is more in line with the product

遇到的问题：我们有时会误删收藏的书签，现在火狐并没一个类似于历史记录的东西，只能像git一样恢复之前的版本，这样会导致有些版本不是按照时间戳来计算的版本，会有一定延迟，可能会出现我这是删了几个书签后，又添加了几个书签，这个操作可能会放入一个版本当中，但其实我只想恢复我删掉的那几个书签中其中一个，这样我需要做重复造轮子的工作，又要把想删的给删了，还要把之前加的书签给加回来，并且一些网站的域名是很难记住的，还需要去翻查历史记录，再一个个去恢复添加标签，十分的麻烦，用户体验极差。

建议优化：希望能提供更细粒度的可视化操作页面，可参考历史浏览记录的功能，在这基础上做一个更符合产品的页面

[Jon]

Thanks for submitting an idea to the Mozilla Connect community! Your idea is now open to votes (aka kudos) and comments.

[jscher2000]

Firefox has an "Undo" for bookmark changes, but I don't know how long those operations are remembered. In order to use it, you need to open the Library window ("Show All Bookmarks") and use the "Organize" menu.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox#w_how-do-i-organize-my-bookmarks

[shashfox]

I) I have accidentally deleted a bookmark multiple times! - Especially when I wanted to edit it. Some solutions:
1) Make it difficult to delete - move delete to another place - perhaps at bottom of the right-click menu - far away from edit (and other regularly used menu items)

II) Another issue is that the Undo delete action is too hidden - Some solutions:
1) On deleteing show a toast with option to undo delete (just like when email is sent on gmail, with option to cancel sending)
2) Show recently deleted at bottom of the left pane in Library>Bookmarks window

Final thoughts, Implementing (I-1) is quick and elegant fit as (II-1) design pattern doesn't exist in FF and (II-2) has bigger build