Markster

Markster keeps your internet bookmarks in a central store. People use Markster because either:

• The internal bookmarks facilities (Bookmarks Bar, Bookmarks Menu, Favorites Bar, etc.) in their web browser(s) do not meet their feature expectations.
• They use more than one web browser, and prefer to keep all their bookmarks in a separate app, independent of the web browsers, instead of syncing the browsers' internal bookmarks facilities together.

When Markster users want to visit a bookmark they have previously stored, or add a new bookmark, instead of reaching for the Bookmarks Bar or Bookmarks Menu in the browser, they bring up Markster's Floating Menu. Markster provides three ways to do that:

• Global Keyboard Shortcut, for example Cmd-Shift-D.
• Dock Menu
• Status Menulet (right side of Menu Bar)

The keyboard shortcut and/or status menulet are enable/disabled in Markster's preferences.

• Compatible with macOS 10.12.6 and/or Safari 11.0. (Without this change, our app may think that iCould+Safari syncing is ON when in fact if is OFF, which will cause an error message to appear after an export to Safari.)
• The Floating Menu, Menu Extra and Dock Menu can now land new bookmarks from the current page being viewed in Firefox, Opera, and Vivaldi. This requires that these browsers have installed either BookMacster Sync extension version 38 or later, or BookMacster Button extension version 26 or later.
• Changes to the Manage Browser Extensions window in Markster:
• Can now install our Button browser extensions into Canary, Chromium, Opera and Vivaldi too.
• Can no longer install our Sync browser extension into any browser. (The only benefit of the Sync extension to Markster was to allow import/export with Firefox and Chrome while they are running. However, the typical Markster user will import/export with browsers infrequently. Also, import/exports performed via extension are much slower than import/exports performed via direct access, and eliminating software components decreases trouble and makes for happier users.)
• Indications in the Manage Browser Extensions window are now more trustworthy. (Hitting the round refresh button, or re-activating our app, now quits any browser(s) if extensions have been recently installed or uninstalled, and clears any prior test results, before new indications are determined. Previously, nothing happened when merely re-activating our app.)
• Improved support for screen-reading accessibility tools such as VoiceOver.
• When using VoiceOver, the command VO+m now changes focus to the main menu as it does in other applications, instead of causing our app to lose focus. (Our apps no longer always start in the background and switch to the foreground if the Launch in Background preference is switched OFF. That previous configuration triggered an apparent bug in macOS which caused some VoiceOver commands to fail.)
• Clicking the the application menu Stop All Syncing Now now completely removes all Synkmark agents, even if Synkmark is syncing Firefox. This has appeared to not work (The menu item still indicated 1 document syncing the next time it was clicked) since version 2.3. Actually, syncing was stopped, but there was a vestige which caused this false indication.
• In the Logs window, hitting the round refresh button now also scrolls the messages to the bottom so that new messages are immediately visible.
• Restored capability to completely create a Firefox bookmarks database file from scratch, in the event that the user’s file is missing or corrupt.
• Improved emulation of Firefox during exports while Firefox is not running. Although this does not fix any misbehavior that we know of at this time, it’s better and safer. (Now updates *syncChangeCounter, no longer names the three hard folders representing shown in Firefox’ Show All Bookmarks - Library.)
• Package now includes updated versions, BookMacster Button extension version 26, and BookMacster Sync extension version 26, signed by Mozilla, for initial installation into Firefox. This does not affect existing users because the new versions published a few days ago and should already have been downloaded and silently installed by Firefox.
• Code improvements suggested by latest Apple Developer tools (Xcode 9).
• Clarified Help Book sec. 4.4.22.
• In Preferences > Adding, the image of our old menu items in Firefox (not used since version 2.3) has been removed.
• Improved wording of Error 651507.