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>Bookmarks no longer support multiple keywords for the same URL unless the request has different POST data

Can someone explain this one to me? Does this mean I can't use "gi", "i", "image", and "is" as my Google Image Search keywords and need to pick one? Reading the issue [0] isn't helping me. I only recently updated to FF59 from FF39, having to abandon most of my workflow. I really hope this update isn't another nail on the stairs for me, seems every single update since FF40 has broken a significant piece of my workflow. I'd appreciate knowing before updating and then having to roll-back.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1313188




...based on this comment on the bug:

> But people expect that it's the specific bookmarks that have keywords, not the urls+postdata, because it always worked like this.

> The UI also shows this. There's a keyword field for a bookmark. And it's not labeled keyword for url/post data. This is a discrepancy, and results in unexpectedly overwritten keywords.

I'm guessing the title is supposed to be read "(multiple bookmark) keywords", not "multiple (bookmark keywords)", and the release note restated it wrongly.

Like, if you have two separate bookmarks with different names, but they go to the same URL, they share whatever's in the keywords field.


I had someone on IRC confirm for me before I updated, multiple keywords for the same URL (eg: youtube.com/?q=%s) still works. I'm still not 100% sure what is meant by this line though, which is what caused confusion for me:

>It is no longer possible to have multiple bookmark keywords for the same url, unless the request has different POST data.

I guess I'm confused what "POST data" is - as it apparently isn't %s and I don't know what else you can change for a keyword bookmark so I'm not sure how you'd even change what the POST data is.

"y" and "yt" both work to navigate to "youtube.com" and "y search" and "yt search" both did a youtube search for "search".




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