The worst icon ever.

I've lost my bookmarks with every version of this app. I've run the program exactly as suggested. Each time it completes checking my bookmarks list, I select the bookmarks that are no long valid, and attempt to delete them, per the developers instructions. My original bookmarks are saved in my documents folder, just as he said they would, so this is no problem. What IS a problem is the 4 hours wasted running the app, and then being left with all the undesirable bookmarks still in my original bookmarks (saved to documents), because after selecting all the undesirable bookmarks in the check boxes, the program begins to delete them, but freezes, giving me the Apple "watch" - from which I have to force quit the program (after waiting 25 minutes just to give it plenty of time to come out of what looks like a freeze).

I love the idea of the app, have paid for it, and I suppose it's no big deal to loose the affordable $6 - but I Do mind losing so much of my time to this program.

It is NOT ready for prime time. I know, because I am a tech, who gets paid to trouble shoot program like this all day. And yes, I've tried it on more than one Mac, and trouble shot it to death! I'm not mad at the developer-just frustrated.

Here is a review of this excellent little app:

This application does what I should have done myself but somehow never felt like. It listed all my 700 bookmarks (I thought I would have about 150!!!) and scanned them all. Since the bookmarks can be sorted, I decided to sort on error code. I decided to delete all with error #404 which is "Page not found". Safari Prairefire deleted the checked bookmarks in a few seconds. I then deleted some other bookmarks not because they were expired but because I stopped visiting them. Some bookmarks I cannot even remember adding. I now have about 300 bookmarks and Safari feels more snappy. Not sure if that is true but it feels like I have just cleaned up the basement of my house! I cannot say how long it would have taken me to manually scan those bookmarks and go back and delete the expired ones. The best bet is to say that I would never have done it and my list would have kept growing and growing.

I recommend the great utility to anyone that has been using Safari for a while or started off by importing old bookmarks from previous browsers. You will be surprised what you find.

The application has still room to grow. All bookmarks are presented in a long list. It would be nice to also see how they are sorted in folders, subfolders etc. Not all the time (one list is clearer) but the option would be great. Also, according to the Mac UI guidelines this kind of app should have brushed metal windows (it presents a selectable list). The author has an option for this but the prefs seem to have no effect. Another thing is that it would be good if the app could somehow explain what the site error codes mean. The deletion process was not flawless either. Once when I had selected many bookmarks and deleted them Safari did not seem to recognize the bookmarks.plist file and opened up without any bookmarks. It was not problem as Prairefire saved a backup and all I had to do was to click "Restore" to get the bookmarks back. Overall very easy to use, intuitive interface, a very nice utility with very few glitches and with a functionality that really should be built into Safari.

Application seems to work ok, but the Demo (Light) Mode, is extremely limited. It will only scan 2 URLs. And only the first 2 URLs. I selected 2 other URLs, and it won't scan those. Darn. The ReadMe says it's quite useful in this state, but I disagree, it is, but for only 2 URLs. I would contribute to the project, but I'm not sure if the application works because the first 2 URLs are OK.