12.26.06
Breadcrumbs 0.1.2 Preview Available
Breadcrumbs 0.1.2 preview is available. Breadcrumbs saves every page you view and allows you to search them. This preview fixes umlaut problems in German and extends its Chinese capabilities. A description of Breadcrumbs can be found here.
mahimahi said,
January 2, 2007 at 8:01 am
I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time, and it seems to work well so far. A couple of questions:
1. The Addons-entry states: “Breadcrumbs is a search engine for your cache”. But it seems that breadcrumbs builds it’s own database, so i am assuming firefox cache settings have no influence on breadcrumbs. Is there a plan to allow settings to limit the cache by age of entries or size of the cache/database? It seems that the database is growing fairly quickly, so it would be nice to have an option to delete all entries older than say 3 weeks. Deleting pages manually every now and then obviously is no good alternative.
2. The documentation is not very explicit about the server.
Does it start with windows? as a service? or does it only run when firefox is started?
David Kellogg said,
January 2, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Thank Terry Chay for thinking of the whole thing.
1. No, it’s not the Firefox cache after all. The index database and filesystem cache grow ad infinitum until I decide mine grows too large. Then I plan a fix like what you describe. Currently I use 626MB on 9600 documents, and my 80G hard drive is still doing fine. The pages take up 602MB and index 21MB. Obviously, the Breadcrumbs cache (the pages) is the first to cut. I swear I plan to fix it. Note that there are ways to delete parts of your saved data and index in the Tools ->Breadcrumbs->Options…. This is not the real long-term solution.
2. The server runs inside one Firefox window at a time, so it’s not a service that starts with Windows, X or OSX. If this window is closed and another remains open, a new server starts up within 10 seconds.
Tell me if your Breadcrumbs cache is getting out of hand. Be patient, and the fix should be out before your hard drive melts.
mahimahi said,
January 12, 2007 at 2:25 am
Thanks for the info. No problems so far with the size of the database, i was just wondering. Very useful extension, i added Breadcrumbs search to my search-bar with the opensearch-plugin - very handy.
Chris Bielenko said,
January 28, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Hello,
First i like the idea.
Unfortunately, it didn’t work well,
while indexing only some of site (i opened
,as you suggested, about 10 sites and
search option seen only 3.)
When i opened session with about 40 tabs
breadcrumbs still was showing only small about.
I use firefox 1.5.0.9, with polish language.
What do you suggest?
David Kellogg said,
January 28, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Dziękuję. Can you post 3 URLs of problematic Polish sites in the comments? I’ll make sure the next version works well with Polish and can handle the extended alphabet in the search. I’ll test the tabs again.
It may interest you that nothing is saved until after you leave a page.
Dave
B. Stephen Scott said,
March 12, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Neat! Looking forward to next release with database size management.
g said,
April 6, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Hi, is there a fix for the database size? I was defragmenting my hard drive and just noticed that it was taking about 1 GB!
thanks
Yong said,
April 22, 2007 at 9:54 am
I found Breadcrumbs to be very useful. Thank you for creating this. However, I have a feature request. Could you save the original location of the page, including the request part (the part of the URL that starts with ?value=…)? Could you also add a link in each result to the original page?
Breadcrumbs is very good. Thanks for the great software.
Hal said,
February 14, 2008 at 11:40 am
If only there was an option to tell this plugin to index all bookmarked sites (to a certain link-depth).
Then the user could select whether to search the history cache or the bookmarks cache.
Robert said,
April 12, 2008 at 6:29 pm
I have been looking for something like this. It is invaluable to be able to retrieve news articles as I use them, and I look forward to fewer “I saw it somewhere on the web” comments, and replacing them with “It was in The Washington Post on May 3rd, 2007,” type comments. I appreciate the effort it takes to build something.
Amanda said,
June 18, 2008 at 1:17 pm
So now that Firefox 3 is out, do you have any plans to update the extension?
David Kellogg said,
June 28, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Yes. I sent it in for review. It should be out soon.
Dave
Derek said,
August 2, 2008 at 7:24 am
Hi — I’ve been happily using Ken Schutte’s slogger extension for a few years but now it’s been abandoned and FF3’s “new! improved!” security restrictions have seriously messed up the nice web-page archiving ecosystem I had going here … sigh … Anyway I’m writing this to see if you might get motivated to give Breadcrumbs a slogger-like option to /selectively/ save and index web-pages, i.e. via toolbar button or context-menu, rather than archiving every page visited. The other nice bit that slogger had was generating a daily HTML or XML logfile, which made it easy to chronologically review the pages one felt worth saving for future reference, day by day over the past weeks, months, … I’ve found this an invaluable aid to recollection.
(Meanwhile, I’ll try adapting the old slogger code to work with POW…)
Thanks for considering — D.