omnibookmarks VS Fenix

For quickly loading bookmarks, I made an extension that allows you to open or add a bookmark by typing a keyword for it into the address bar:

https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks

I use it constantly (probably hundreds of times per day) to load common pages I use for running by business and living my life.

I recently decided to open source this extension that I've been using personally for over a year. I use it heavily, but it especially comes in handy when I'm answering support emails for the product I develop, because it allows me to quickly pull up URLs (to documentation, support pages) to include in the support emails. The extension itself is extremely simple (less than 150 LOC), which makes it easy for others to visually check and audit:

https://github.com/binarynate/omnibookmarks/blob/74d140092a4...

Like the README mentions, I created this extension as a replacement for Hashmem, which offered the same mechanism for saving pages. I have to give credit to Hashmem for coming up with the simple way of opening and adding bookmarks, which Omnibookmarks emulates. However, the Hashmem extension was removed from the Google Chrome Store over a year ago for a policy violation, its code was obfuscated, and it required permission to send data to its own servers is Russia. So, I created Omnibookmarks as a simple open source replacement with a focus on security and transparency.

It's been that way for years: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20351

I lost hope it and other issues would be fixed and moved to Chromium on Android.

Firefox for Android was rewritten pretty much from scratch circa 2020. Collections are one of its many unfinished and poorly-thought-out features, and they never got around to implementing the ability to sync Collections to desktop. It was a known problem in 2019, while the rewrite was being worked on, and Mozilla doesn't appear to have given it any attention in the years since.

People have been asking for this for over a year via Mozilla's current feedback channels, and for two years on the previous issue-reporting venue, to no avail. It was automatically moved from the old venue to Bugzilla ostensibly because Bugzilla makes it easier to track and work on issue reports, but they haven't actually worked on that issue report at all.

Known issue, not a new issue, and unlikely to be fixed any time soon, unfortunately. I had this before I stopped using the Android version a year ago. It was reported as a bug at least a year ago on their old issue tracker, and later moved to the current one, where last activity on the issue report was three months ago. No apparent progress toward any fix.

Since Fenix's first release they've been saying that the absurd limitations on add-ons support were only temporary, and they would have quickly increased the number of supported ones.

And instead absolutely nothing changed for three years.

Furthermore the insane bugs from which Fenix suffers from its release (https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12731) (making it unbearable) have been left hanging, focusing the few resources on dumb ui experiments.

So everything suggested that Mozilla did not care of its Android browser, or actually that they were deliberately sabotaging it.

This news instead represents a huge improvement, hence my bewilderment.

I don't know what people who downvoted my message thought I meant.

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/20012 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101865

This was sadly deprecated on Android: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/12099

It was such a huge loss for me that for at least a year I used the outdated pre-Fenix. Now they still work on Desktop but they just stopped working on Android (althouth the bookmarks itself are synced-up)