On Netscape x.x there has always been under bookmarks an option in the bookmarks view menu "Update Bookmarks". I think this is a superb option and I use it quite often. Tis actually one of the reasons I still stay with Netscape. I just d/l Milestone 17 and didn't see this option. Please, bring it back!!

In Netscape 4.75 on windows, I don't see a View submenu in the Bookmarks menu. Could you please explain further?

In email from reporter: "I am Running Netscape Communicator 4.75. When you press ctrl-b you get a bookmark window, there is a view menu there. (that is what I am referring to)." confirming

 

Netscape Nav triage team: this is not a Netscape beta stopper.

bug 8648, bug 13012, bug 22714, bug 23212. Is there an issue not covered in those bugs that should be in the update feature?

Marking nsbeta1- bugs as future to get off the radar

One issue this bug addresses that isn't addressed in the other "bugs" is the ability for the user to instantly check a specified number of links by selecting them or the parent folder. Under the current system, this is not possible. I personally would like this feature to be implemented.

This sounds like fun. I'd like to do this after RTM. This could include updating the date, and displaying a different icon if the document no longer exists. (Maybe even with an audit allowing the pruning of dead links).

After RTM??? <sigh> For those of us with 160K bookmark files, this is much desired... see also: http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/119/1999/12/0/3033755/ I guess I'll just wish for the following to be included under "Update Bookmarks" - find dupes (ask user, by default; option to delete one, or delete both and copy one to some location) - http validator (with gamespy-like options to auto-delete if bookmark fails x times in y days, etc.) - barring all else, just make it faster; I can only stomach trying to manage bookmarks for a short while before I get totally frustrated at the speed -- and, yeah, its only a 266...

Ok... less itchy now. :) Here's a quick Perl hack for the inclined. Uses the (unused?) description field to store the http HEAD code. Amazon.com doesn't like HEAD requests, oh well. I'm filing a bug about not being able to delete URLs from the bookmark search results window. That kinda ruins the fun of this script. I saw one 404 that wasn't really 404 (?) caveat emptor #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use strict; # Create a user agent object use LWP::UserAgent; my $ua; my $req; my $res; $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; $ua->agent("AgentName/0.1 " . $ua->agent); $ua->timeout(5); # in seconds; pretty short, change as you like open BM, "<bookmarks.html"; open OM, ">outmarks.html"; my $indent = ''; for my $line (<BM>) { # *** WARNING WARNING WARNING *** # # DANGER, WILL ROBINSON, DANGER! # # skip definition/description/comments lines # # If you use your description field for anything, you'll want to change # this. Fair warning. # OTOH, we're not clobbering your file, unless you have a file called # outmarks.html... # next if $line =~ /\s*<DD>/; # print all the other lines print OM $line; # don't do anything if the line doesn't have an http URL next unless $line =~ s/^(\s*).*?HREF="(.*?)".*/$2/; $indent = $1 . " "; chomp( $line ); # get the HTTP code and message # Create a request $req = new HTTP::Request HEAD => "$line"; # Pass request to the user agent and get a response back $res = $ua->request($req); # print the code in a <DD> line print OM "$indent<DD>", $res->code, " ", $res->message, "\n"; } close BM; close OM;

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

mass reassign of pchen bookmark bugs to ben

How about integrating this work with bug 74627- 'schedule' and 'notify' bookmarks globally - with the addition of an option to "notify global immediately" which would be exactly the same as "update all bookmarks." All we need for "update all bookmarks" is a fix for 74627 and an option to set notification to now instead of some future time.

This is the one bug that is keeping me from switching from Internet Explorer as my default browser. I have a list of 200 sites that I check daily for updates. IE 5.x (Mac OS, Mac OS X) has a feature that checks all marked Favorites for updates. As soon as this is implemented in Mozilla (preferably just as it worked in 4.x) then I have no use for IE. IE is unstable and incompatible with quite a few pages. I have not yet found a page I can't use Mozilla in, and even though it still needs some work, it seems to be a better browser. IE for Mac OS X doesn't even include an e-mail client, let alone a page composer!

Nav triage team: nsbeta1-

*** Bug 160895 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 36495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 239026 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

The description of the bug itself isn't very clear about the function of the "update button". What I read from the comments is that it checks if the bookmarked site has been updated. Is this correct?

On one hand this is still valid rfe, on other this may be done as add-on, but I can find only a bit outdated https://addons.mozilla.org/en/firefox/addon/bookmarks-linkchecker/

Plus these days people would be using RSS feeds to track updates. Extension Fodder=> WONTFIX.