The one thing I notice is that tags frequently show up multiple times in the list. While testing it out on my webcomics, “comics” appeared twice in approximately 80% of the time. Both boxes would be checked. Unchecking one caused the tag to disappear. Unchecking the second, caused the tag to reappear. (At which point, neither box was checked.)

All I can say is SLICK.

@Jay:

Could you send us the url of a bookmark that demonstrates this behavior?

@REL:

Thanks!

Thanks, using it now! =)

Awesome. This will be very helpful.

I can’t activate this function. It is grey/inactive.

Kuki: It only works in Firefox 3, as Firefox 2 doesn’t natively support tags.

I like this idea. However, as soon as I installed it, my ForecastFox weather extension began intermittently going on the blink. Occasionally it works but now most of the time each day’s forecast just shows up as 0 degrees, and it freezes up the browser for a few seconds every time the forecast refreshes.

@Dan: I looked into the problem and it’s unrelated to Foxmarks. Looks like AccuWeather is having trouble returning data to the add-on. You can follow the conversation on the ForecastFox forums.

@gaurav: thanks, that’s good to know. I happened to notice the problem right after I installed the new Foxmarks and had made no other changes recently so I assumed that was the culprit.

When I turn on suggested tags and add a bookmark the normal window appears and is then replaced with a window including the tag options. The problem is that only the left 50% or so of the window is displayed–the rest is cut off. I first assumed it was my compact theme (Nautipolis), but it also happens with the default theme. I don’t have any other extensions that modify the add bookmark window or any addons that modify Firefox’s appearance (like stylish).

It is not working with Firefox 3.1 beta 2

Kudos, what a great idea. It works fine for me in the FireFox portable 3.1 beta 2, I do not have the beta loaded on my desktop machine.

I might suggest another check box to send the url via email; this would launch the default email app.

Great product!!!

Hi Steve Fuller,

We’re trying to reproduce this in house; could you tell us what OS you are using (Win, Mac, or Linux)? We’ll try to reproduce it on this end and get a bug fix in for the next release.

Cheers,

Will

Hi sb,

I’m having trouble reproducing your problem with 3.1b2. Could you check a couple things on your system for me?

- If you go into the foxmarks settings dialog and click on the discovery tab, is the “Enable Suggested Tags” checked?

- Is the installed version of firefox the English version or some other language? Since our first release doesn’t have support for localized language tabs, we made the default off for non-english firefox installs for this initial release (you can turn them on of course)

Please let me know how it goes.

Cheers,

Will

How’s Foxmarks for Google Chrome coming? The password saving and bookmark transferring is the ONLY thing keeping me on the Firefox bandwagon.

I’d love you guys forever and bear your children.

@JD: Google still hasn’t finished(or, maybe, even started) work on their Extensions API, so Foxmarks can’t really start work on an extension for it yet. Here’s a link to a page about it:
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions

This feature is awesome! I would love it if you would recommend tags for already synced bookmarks or I would have to delete and add every bookmark for Foxmarks to recommend tags.

Partial window issue–Vista SP1. I was trying to track it down for you by disabling all my extensions and re-enabling a section at a time. But by doing that it cured the issue even after I had reenabled all my 37 extensions.

why dont you use foxmarks to syncronize the history? I think it would be useful and easy to do, because you already have the tools.

thnx.

if u can do this, reply me by email…

Does foxmarks back up tag info? If so how come I can’t see it, or use it, with the site?

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This is the first I’ve heard of tagging bookmarks. Sounds very useful, and I agree with Hadi Farah that someway to automatically update all my existing bookmarks would be very useful. (I’ve just downloaded 2.7.2.)

Love the new feature! I’d like to second Hadi Farah’s request for suggest tagging your already saved bookmarks since that would be extremely useful. Thanks for all the hard work on a great system!

It rocks! Foxmarks developpers, you are the best!!!

I like the idea of suggested tags, but I don’t quite like the interface. I’d much rather see an interface similar to Firefox’s native tag list used where they are in a scrollable list with check boxes.

I find it a bit annoying that currently it often has to resize and redraw the dialog making it difficult to perform quick actions when I don’t need or want tag suggestions.

If instead you just added a button and imitated the native interface the dialog wouldn’t need too much adjusting until user initiated. Plus, you then wouldn’t have to download the suggested tags until the user requests them, or you can but it would appear much more seamless to the user.

The check box list also has the advantage for future possibilities in that you can make it a table and display how relevant the suggestions are, offer alternate sort orders, and more easily expand the number of suggestions you offer. You may even decide in the future that you need some way of filtering and reporting tags to keep things family friendly, which I think would be easier to accomplish in a list box.

Just some thoughts… keep up the good work!

Really cool! Can’t wait for the Brazilian Portuguese version!

@Hadi Farah: Yes good idea indeed! We’ll definitely consider adding “auto-tag all” as a feature.

@Bobart: Those are some great ideas. We actually considered adding suggested tags to Firefox’s list, but opted out of that because: (a) if you regularly use tags then that list is huge, (b) there is no relevance ordering to that list so you’d spend a lot of time scrolling, and (c) that list contains your tags and some folks may not appreciate us mixing in our own suggestions there. That said, I do like your idea of making it a table and adding the ability to sort and filter.

@gaurav: I actually didn’t mean adding it to the Firefox generated list, but rather imitating their tag list control and populating it with your suggestions.

In essence, I pictured you essentially duplicating the native tag fields in that dialog, but populating the list with only your suggestions. Not sure how you could make use of the edit field or what you could put in its place.

I would definitely be against you appending results to my list of tags.

When I turn on suggested tags and add a bookmark the normal window appears and is then replaced with a window including the tag options. The problem is that only the left 80% or so of the window is displayed–the rest is cut off. I first assumed it was my compact theme (Nautipolis), but it also happens with the default theme. I don’t have any other extensions that modify the add bookmark window or any addons that modify Firefox’s appearance (like stylish).

Partial window issue–Vista SP1. I was trying to track it down for you by disabling all my extensions and re-enabling a section at a time. But by doing that it cured the issue even after I had reenabled all my 37 extensions.

Correction–the bug is caused by Add Bookmark Here(2).

It looks like Foxmarks has its own auto update alert!? If so, please stick with the standard Fx update; the popup dialog is pointless and annoying.

This is going to be a stupid question but I use Foxmarks to sync my bookmarks where does the suggested tags come in to play and how do you do it. Some people are talking about activating this function. I am lost on this. Help!

@Chris Martin: Not at all Chris. To use Suggested Tags, you need to be using Firefox 3 and must have the latest version of Foxmarks (download it here). Once that’s done, simply bookmark a website and you’ll see a list of suggested tags in the bookmark menu (see the image above). You can turn the feature on or off by opening the Foxmarks Settings dialog (Tools > Foxmarks > Foxmarks Settings…), clicking the “Discovery” tag, and toggling the Suggested Tags feature checkbox.

If you still don’t see Suggested Tags, please visit our help page and report the problem. Please include your Firefox and Foxmarks versions in your report. Hope this helps!

Thanks. Looking forward to try this.
I’ve been waiting for this feature for a couple of years.

I agree that Foxmarks should have a bulk tag feature that lets you auto-tag all your bookmarks at once with suggested tags. This would be killer!

I thing the the idea of ‘a giant slor’ is great. I would like an auto-tag feature.