[asdffdasasdf]

With a s* for brains search.

It fails to search anything, even it's own folders! or parts of the url. or the tags that gets added and removed from the UI every now and then and are ignored in search.

heck there's a 18yr old bug about performance being so bad in this search that if you have over 1k bookmarks it will just hang for several seconds.

edit: that said, i also use firefox bookmarks exclusively, but just for the (only one true in the entire industry) e2e server backups. Then i just manually export them and search outside of firefox, which sucks.

[theonemind]

That's strange. I use Firefox bookmarks pretty heavily and haven't had any of these problems. I type any bit of a URL or title for any bookmark I have in any folder, and Firefox finds it instantly every time. I think I have more than 1,000 at work (internal wikis, blahblah). A large part of my never switching to Chrome came from how much better Firefox worked for bookmarks. I use tags and ability to show tagged bookmarks from the URL bar a lot, especially. (i.e., "tag +" will show all of the bookmarks with that tag, but actually, you don't have to type the '+' unless you want to exclude matching the substring for anything but tags, because it searches tags when you start typing it also)

[yborg]

Agree with sibling, works on my machine, I have over 2k bookmarks in FF. Make a new profile and reimport the bookmarks and see if this all still happens.

That said, all you have is the url and description if you don't tag, so yeah, it's hard for it to be really smart about what you are looking for. As another commenter mentioned, this is an area that an AI assist tagger or search would be useful. But the industry want to drive you to a search engine so you can be data mined and shown ads.

[toastercat]

I know I compute like a caveman at times, so a few points that might sound downright archaic:

* If I have over 1k bookmarks, that probably means it's time to go in for spring cleaning and start deleting some

* Other comments have made it apparent that you can tag bookmarks, but I personally just prepend the names of bookmarks like "javascript js - How to reverse a singly linked list GeekForGeeks" to make it easier for me to search for it in the future.

In the end, I prefer the benefit of not having an extra site/tool like Instapaper/Pocket/Shiori to have to deal with.