<![CDATA[Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/"]]>Would be nice to have a trustworthy add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up 's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/"

The most popular add-on I found, https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bookmarks-organizer/, can't do it. Everything else in https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=bookmarks+replace+url replace url seems to have a few hundred users at most…

According to "Bookmarks Organizer", I have over 18,000 bookmarks, of which 1k are GitLab issues URLs, so doing it manually would be very inefficient.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/e86c48f2-6091-439d-acd2-ca7382d0e023/would-be-nice-to-have-a-trustworthy-firefox-add-on-for-doing-search-and-replace-on-urls-in-bookmarks-to-fix-up-gitlab-s-arbitrary-renaming-of-issues-to-work_itemsRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 22:34:05 GMTThu, 30 Apr 2026 17:11:28 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT]]>@nekohayo this is a small hearbreak and horror for those of us who just spent a few months writing immutable bookmark managers.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fantastic.earth/users/deobald/statuses/116498025710133152https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fantastic.earth/users/deobald/statuses/116498025710133152Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:00 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:00:20 GMT]]>@nekohayo
Did you try escaping slashes? (\/)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://persadon.com/users/danialbehzadi/statuses/116495195879092515https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://persadon.com/users/danialbehzadi/statuses/116495195879092515Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:00:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:55:12 GMT]]>@nekohayo @cristianrasch

Here's a really simple firefox extension that could do the trick.

__Test__ and __backups__ before of course.

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GitLab (framagit.org)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/rnb/statuses/116495175700133629https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/rnb/statuses/116495175700133629Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:55:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:43:25 GMT]]>YOLO I guess, I was not going to be doing manual database surgery nor manually editing a thousand bookmarks, so ended up using https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/bookmark-url-batch-replacer/ and hoping that it can be trusted.

That UI is sketchy as hell, but it seems like "/-/issues/" and "/-/work_items/" did not trigger any regexes.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/nekohayo/statuses/116495129324965583https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/nekohayo/statuses/116495129324965583Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:43:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:06:49 GMT]]>@nekohayo
Don't know of any extension, sorry.

My own approach for a similar migration was to fix this up directly in the history/bookmarks database:

- Quit Firefox
- Find the places.sqlite file in your profile
- Make a backup!
- Type: sqlite3 places.sqlite
- Type: update moz_places set url = replace(url, '/-/issues?', '/-/work_items?');
- Quit with Ctrl-D

This will fix both bookmarks and the history. Unfortunately I have no clue how Firefox Sync will react to this stunt.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nerdculture.de/users/inguin/statuses/116494985410788456https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://nerdculture.de/users/inguin/statuses/116494985410788456Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:06:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:56:20 GMT]]>@nekohayo @cristianrasch

I've done a lot of export import of bookmarks between browsers over the years without problems (except with Gnome Epiphany)

The size (18 000 bookmarks 😱) should not be a problem, but I don't know how Firefox Sync will react.

Maybe a "dryrun" with a dedicated firefox profile to see how it goes.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/rnb/statuses/116494944209195841https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/rnb/statuses/116494944209195841Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:56:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:45:55 GMT]]>@cristianrasch @rnb
Yuck
But also, I fear this rugpull could go "very wrong" with Firefox Sync across multiple computers, and with extensions such as https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/snoozetabs/ (which uses bookmarks behind the scenes)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/nekohayo/statuses/116494903221091695https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/nekohayo/statuses/116494903221091695Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:45:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:43:55 GMT]]>@rnb @nekohayo Was about to propose the same workflow. Using a powerful text editor like that's just 2 commands way (one to make the substitution across the entire file, plus another to save your changes and exit the editor)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/cristianrasch/statuses/116494895411024477https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://fosstodon.org/users/cristianrasch/statuses/116494895411024477Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:43:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Would be nice to have a trustworthy #Firefox add-on for doing search-and-replace on URLs in bookmarks, to fix up #GitLab's arbitrary renaming of "/-/issues/" to "/-/work_items/" on Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:22:33 GMT]]>@nekohayo

Et pourquoi pas exporter les bookmarks (en HTML ou en JSON), corriger avec un outils dédié puis réimporter les bookmarks ?

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/rnb/statuses/116494811373083214https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://framapiaf.org/users/rnb/statuses/116494811373083214Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:22:33 GMT