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Anonymous
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Status: New idea

feature name: Avoid duplicate bookmarks(saved urls)

feature description: 

  1. Whenever the user saves a url the Mozilla Firefox browser checks whether the saved url is a duplicate or not.
  2. An alert appears if the url is duplicated. If not, the alert does not appear.

 

Example

paulocarlosjose_0-1650493116200.png

Expected benefit

  1. Avoid repeated bookmarks
  2. Data consistency

Reference

  1. https://sweetalert.js.org/docs/

 

17 Comments
eduardojuan
New member

A tool to search for and remove duplicate bookmarks

I don't know where duplicate bookmarks come from but they are a pain. Removing them is torture.

Why don't you add a tool to search for and remove duplicate bookmarks and folders? Windows utilities use this approach to remove duplicate files in the computer.

Please do it, or tell me of an expeditious alternative to remove mine. I have hundreds of unwanted duplicate bookmarks! Example is attached.

Also, can you explain where they came from?

PS/ I AM NOT A NEW MEMBER. I HAVE BEEN USING FIREFOX FOR 20 YEARS!

Anonymous
Not applicable

@eduardojuanHi! How are you? I had this same idea here, I hope to help: https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/avoid-duplicate-bookmarks-saved-urls/idi-p/4625idea2.png

 

Source-code

```

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS moz.bookmarks(
moz_places.id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
moz_bookmarks.id INTEGER NOT NULL,
moz_bookmarks.fk FOREIGN KEY (moz_places.id) REFERENCES moz.bookmarks(moz_places.id),
moz_places.guid TEXT NOT NULL,
moz_bookmarks.guid TEXT NOT NULL,
moz_bookmarks.title TEXT NOT NULL,
moz_places.url TEXT NOT NULL UNIQUE,
moz_places.title TEXT NOT NULL,
moz_places.description TEXT NOT NULL,
moz_places.preview_image_url TEXT NOT NULL,
moz_places.visit_count INTEGER NOT NULL,
moz_annos.content TEXT NOT NULL,
datetime(moz_places.last_visit_date/1000000,'unixepoch','localtime') as 'Last',
datetime(moz_historyvisits.visit_date/1000000,'unixepoch','localtime' ) as ' LastVisit',
datetime(moz_annos.dateAdded/1000000,'unixepoch','localtime') as 'BookMarkAdded',
datetime(moz_annos.lastModified/1000000,'unixepoch','localtime') as 'BookMarkModified',
moz_places.typed as 'P_Typed',
moz_hosts.typed as 'H_Typed',
moz_inputhistory.input,
moz_inputhistory.use_count,
moz_anno_attributes.name as 'type',
hex(moz_places.url_hash) as 'hash' );

```

Notes

  1. I wanted Mozilla Firefox to have this feature to identify duplicate links, I made a sqlite that demonstrates this, where duplicate registry of URLs are not allowed.
  2. I do not know if Firefox still uses the 'places.sqlite' file, old versions of Mozilla Firefox used the files 'places.sqlite' to insert and update bookmarks.
  3. If you want to read everything I researched, the links were below

References

  1. https://github.com/Sean-Der/WebSQL-For-FireFox
  2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8129938/websql-in-firefox
  3. https://www.acquireforensics.com/services/tech/mozilla-firefox.html
  4. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places/Places_SQL_queries_best_practices
  5. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52343272/sql-query-on-tags-in-places-sqlite-of-firefox
  6. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Places/AsyncAPIsForSync#Bookmarks
  7. https://github.com/phhu/browserSearchShortcuts
  8. https://github.com/Dissimilis/BookmarksManager
  9. https://github.com/phhu/browserSearchShortcuts
  10. https://gist.github.com/hyperreal64/0cfc47dde15e4ff9ec95fee3a90bf619
  11. https://gist.github.com/Alligator-1/3c49a048eb77f6b8ad4baaeef8bccccc
  12. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/show-the-keyword-field-when-creating-bookmark/idi-p/3441
  13. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/duplicate-bookmarks/idi-p/4365
  14. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/464516/firefox-bookmarks-sqlite-structure
  15. https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/d/d5/Places.sqlite.schema3.pdf
  16. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/bookmarks-firefox
  17. https://sleeplessbeastie.eu/2018/05/07/how-to-import-firefox-bookmarks-to-nextcloud-application/
  18. https://www.aplawrence.com/Web/firefox-sqlite.html
  19. https://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2133167
  20. https://github.com/stark4n6/Forensic-SQL-Queries
  21. https://github.com/kacos2000/Queries
  22. https://gist.github.com/iafisher/d624c04940fa46c6d9afb26cb1bf222a
  23. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6175924/simple-bookmark-manager-in-sqlite
  24. https://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite
  25. https://www.sqlitetutorial.net/sqlite-create-table/
Sbernecchia
Making moves

I sometime create duplicate bookmarks on purpose (in different folders).

So adding duplicates bookmarks should not be an error, but only an (optional) warning.

 

 

 

 

Anonymous
Not applicable

@SbernecchiaHi! How are you? Thank you for feedback!

Frijheid
Strollin' around

Strongly agree

I think the warning when placing duplicate bookmarks will help the user in adding bookmarks, the main goal is not to have duplicate bookmarks

Frijheid
Strollin' around

Strongly agree.

I also think the warning when placing duplicate bookmarks will help the user in adding bookmarks, the main goal is not to have duplicate bookmarks.

metropical
New member

so that one can eliminate dupes and/or merge

Status changed to: New idea
Jon
Community Manager
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Jon
Community Manager
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c0d3h4x0r
New member

Absolutely desperately needed and long overdue!  Firefox stupidly and obnoxiously re-imports the same bookmarks from other browsers over and over again, creating countless duplicates which are unbelievably painful to clean up.  Ideally, Firefox would stop re-importing the same bookmarks and creating duplicates in the first place!

Here's how it happens:

  1. Context: Existing Chrome or Edge user with tons of established bookmarks, using that browser across multiple PCs, with them all configured to sync bookmarks using a Google or Microsoft account.
  2. User installs Firefox on first PC.  Setup/first-run imports bookmarks from Chrome or Edge.  Now all the bookmarks are in Firefox, as expected.  User sets up Firefox account so their bookmarks will sync to Firefox on other PCs/devices.
  3. User installs Firefox on second PC.  Setup/first-run imports the same (sync'd) bookmarks from Chrome or Edge.  Now all the bookmarks are in Firefox, as expected.  User sets up Firefox account so their bookmarks will sync to Firefox on other PCs/devices.
  4. Ooops!  Now the user's Firefox account contains two identical sets of imported bookmarks -- so they get merged, and now the user has duplicated bookmarks in Firefox, which of course sync across both PCs running Firefox.  BAD!
  5. User installs Firefox on third PC.  Setup/first-run imports the same (sync'd) bookmarks from Chrome or Edge.  Now all the bookmarks are in Firefox, as expected.  User sets up Firefox account so their bookmarks will sync to Firefox on other PCs/devices.
  6. Ooops!  Now the user's Firefox account contains three identical sets of imported bookmarks -- so they get merged, and now the user has triplicate bookmarks in Firefox, which of course sync across all three PCs running Firefox.  VERY BAD!

This kind of nonsense is unbelievably absurdly awful!  Please add a feature to help users clean up this disaster, and simultaneously, please fix your "import from other browsers" feature to stop reimporting the same bookmarks that have already been imported on another PC already!

This really shouldn't be difficult to get right.  Just add some additional attributes to your bookmarks.html format to keep track of the fact that a bookmark was originally imported from another browser and should thus never be re-imported again.  Or at the very least, when importing bookmarks, always import them into a uniquely-named folder structure ("Imported Bookmarks/Edge/2021-04-05-221736", "Imported Bookmarks/Chrome/2022-12-20-061827", etc) to keep duplicates separate for easy manual deletion later.