Improvements and bug fixes in today's update

Improvement #1

The maximum length of the notes that you can add to the bookmarks has been increased from 255 characters to 1000 characters.

Improvement #2

From now the multiple line notes are displayed with line breaks on the My Bookmarks page and in the hover tooltips on the Dashboard (if it is set on the Settings page) and on the shared Tabs. Until now line breaks were ignored and multiple line notes were displayed in one line.

Bug fix #1

There were rare cases when Notes/Description didn't get imported from the html bookmarks file. It mostly happened when users imported bookmarks from older bookmarking services. From now Notes/Description are always imported even if the html bookmarks file was created by an old bookmarking service.

Bug fix #2

There were rare cases when the import process failed because of incorrect date values in the html bookmarks file. From now the import won't fail even if the bookmarks file contains incorrect date values.

Why do bookmarks get duplicated after importing from Google Bookmarks? How to fix it?

The Google Bookmarks free online bookmarking service (it is different than the browser-based bookmarking in Google Chrome and should not be confused with Google Chrome) has been around since 2005. Google Bookmarks will be shut down on September 30, 2021.

Many users started to export their bookmarks from Google Bookmarks and after they imported the bookmarks into another bookmark manager or browser they realized that a lot of bookmarks got duplicated.

Unfortunately it’s a design flaw in Google Bookmarks. When you save a bookmark in Google Bookmarks with multiple tags, Google Bookmarks creates multiple copies of the bookmark: Let’s say you save a bookmark with 3 tags “tag1”, “tag2” and “tag3”. Instead of creating one bookmark with the 3 tags, Google Bookmarks creates 3 folders “tag1”, “tag2” and “tag3” and adds a copy of the bookmark to each of the folders. So when you export the bookmarks, the html bookmarks file contains duplicated bookmarks. And if you import this bookmarks file into another bookmark manager or browser you will get duplicated bookmarks.

Fortunately Bookmark Ninja has the Find/Delete Duplicates Tool that helps you get rid of the duplicated bookmarks quickly. You can either delete all the duplicates with just a few clicks or there is also an option for reviewing the duplicates manually and deciding which ones of the duplicated bookmarks to delete.

Fix for the broken UI layout caused by the latest browser updates

The latest Chrome and Firefox updates broke the layout on the Find Duplicates dialog box. Today's Bookmark Ninja update contains a fix for the problem.

New "Bookmark All Tabs" browser extension

The "Bookmark All Tabs" browser extension has been updated in both the Google Chrome Web Store and the Mozilla Add-Ons Store.

The new version (2.0.0.1) contains a bugfix for the "Request-URI Too Long" error message that occurred sometimes when there was a large number of open tabs in the browser. From now you can bookmark unlimited number of tabs without any problem.

If you have the automatic extension update set in your browser then the extension will be updated automatically if not then please update it manually.

You can learn more about the "Bookmark All Tabs" extension in this blog post.

New feature: Dynamic Tabs Bar

If you have many Tabs on the Dashboard you may have multiple rows of Tabs in the Tabs Bar which takes a lot of space on the screen.

The Dynamic Tabs Bar makes it possible to have a single row Tabs Bar even if you have many Tabs that can only fit in multiple rows. With the new Dynamic Tabs Bar settings you can simply limit the number of Tabs that are displayed in the Tabs Bar. To access the non-visible Tabs you have to click on "More Tabs..." next to the Tab titles. Optionally you can also pin the first X number of Tabs in the Tabs Bar, these Tabs will be always visible, the rest of the Tabs in the Tabs Bar will change dynamically when you select a Tab after clicking on "More Tabs...".

Without the Dynamic Tabs Bar

With the Dynamic Tabs Bar turned on

To turn on the Dynamic Tabs Bar

(1) Select "Settings" in the main menu of Bookmark Ninja.

(2) Under "Dynamic Dashboard Tabs Bar" click on the dropdown listbox next to "Maximum number of Tabs to show" and select the number of Tabs.

(3) Optionally you can pin the first X Tabs: click on the dropdown list next to "Number of pinned Tabs" and select the number of Tabs you want to pin in the Tabs Bar (always the first X Tabs will be pinned).

To select a Tab that is not visible in the Tabs Bar after you turned on the Dynamic Tabs Bar

(1) On the Dashboard click on "More Tabs..." next to the Tab titles in the Tabs Bar.

(2) All your Tab titles will appear, click on the one that you want to open.

(3) The selected Tab will open and you will see again a subset of the Tabs in the Tabs Bar including the selected Tab.

To turn off the Dynamic Tabs Bar

(1) Select "Settings" in the main menu of Bookmark Ninja.

(2) Under "Dynamic Dashboard Tabs Bar" click on the dropdown listbox next to "Maximum number of Tabs to show" and select "Show all Tabs".

The Dynamic Tabs Bar is only available in desktop browser, in mobile browser there is no Tabs Bar.

"Rename tag" context menu has been added to the "Selected tags" list

To rename a tag you have to right mouse click on a tag in the "Available tags" list on the My Bookmarks page and select the "Rename tag" context menu.

From now you can rename a tag in the "Selected tags" list, too, the same way:

In mobile browsers tap and hold on a tag to invoke the context menu.

Related topic: How to rename tags?

Improvement: Sorting the bookmarks by domain on the My Bookmarks page

From now you can sort the bookmark list by the domain name of the bookmarks' URLs. You still have the option to sort the bookmarks by URL but if you want to have the bookmarks with the same domain next to each other in the list then you have to sort them by domain.

In desktop browsers: On the My Bookmarks page click on the Order dropdown list on the right side and select either "Domain: A→Z" or "Domain: Z→A".

In mobile browsers: On the My Bookmarks page click on the "Bookmark list order" dropdown list at the bottom of the page and select either "Domain: A→Z" or "Domain: Z→A".

The sorting by domain option will be necessary for the upcoming improvement for the find duplicates feature.