Hi identz,
That’s actually a known ‘problem’ with Firefox, and it’s the only possible way to bookmark in FF using a link. Some publishers/bloggers think it’s better than nothing.
We might switch to prompting the user to hit “CTRL+D” to bookmark in FF, like the Bookmark widget does with Safari, etc.
What do you think?
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identz
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Hi
I think Ctrl D would be preferable.
Not ideal, but I think quite a surprising number of people would not be able to figure out going into the properties to make it go in the main window.
I never really saw the use of the bookmark-in-browser being part one of the options until recently (Thinking that if they wanted to bookmark something in the browser they’d use their browser’s controls) but quite a few people still don’t know how a blog works – That if you want to bookmark an individual post, you have to find the permalink by clicking its title, so it’s useful having a button for that.
When you’re catering for that audience, you have to make it REALLY simple.
BTW, I’m using Firefox 3 beta 4 now and it’s does the same sidebar thing in that.
I think Ctrl D would be preferable.
Done.
BTW, there’s no new plugin version. This update (and most others) are pushed out automatically.
Thanks for raising the question, identz. Always appreciated.
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identz
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Oh oh.
I just realised something.
With the bookmark link you could click on the bookmark link in a blog and it would bookmark that particular post – Even if you were viewing the front page of a blog that had several posts on it.
But Ctrl+D obviously means that you’re bookmarking the page rather than the individual post the bookmark button was at the bottom of.
So now I’m not sure which I preferred.
🙂 …
Good catch about front pages.
Ctrl+D is really what the user wants, and frankly, that’s their only option for Safari, Opera, etc., so we’ll stick with that.
I think the best fix is to reword the message.
“After clicking OK, make sure you’re on the page you want to bookmark, and press Ctrl+D or Cmd+D to bookmark the page.”
Something like that?
Hi
This is a great plug in!
But when I try to bookmark a page, I get the following:
“After clicking OK, make sure you’re on the page you want to bookmark, and press Ctrl+D or Cmd+D to bookmark the page
I can’t see an “OK” to click at all anywhere… I’m probably being dense, but if I can’t see it, then my users won’t be able to – am I missing something?
Thanks
Good catch, Julia! We simply forgot to update the WordPress plugin language strings since the major release.
We’ll get an update out later today.
Thanks again, Julia!
