Counts - Counting bookmarks history links and other data - Firefox

This article addresses how to obtain an item's count concerning Firefox features (bookmarks, history) and counts of such things as links within an active page, along with some calculation features.

Bookmarks and links

Bookmarks

Bookmarks are available with "Ctrl+B". "Ctrl+Shift+B" can show "visit count" per item. For a summary with all items search for :// or http.

• Bookmarks
• Bookmarks with keywords, all, in a folder (1st level of a folder, all levels within)
• Bookmarks with tags, Total number of defined tags (1st level of a folder, all levels within)
• Bookmarks with description

Note "Ctrl+Shift+B" gets you Organize Bookmarks, but if you have converted from older bookmarks the keyboard shortcut may not work, in which case use "Ctrl+Shift+H" for History then select All Bookmarks.

History

History is available with "Ctrl+H". "Ctrl+Shift+H" can show "visit count" per item but not a summary, unless you do a search (:// or http).

• Number of visits to current page ("Ctrl+Shift+H", your own history)

Library

The Library can be accessed through Bookmarks (menu bar) > Organize Bookmarks (version 3 non-upgraded users can use "Ctrl+Shift+B").

Bring up the Library window and do a search for ://. That will pick up both http:// and https://. If you want to include bookmarklets search for ":" (semicolon) instead. To restrict to bookmarklets use "Javascript".

There will be a count in the properties area (at the bottom), if that area prevents the number to show up, move the vertical scrollbar a little bit and the total will appear. If an item in the list is already selected, simply CTRL-click (deselect) that item.

To get a better idea of what you are actually looking at in your results install the Show Parent Folder and Go Parent Folder add-ons. Include the "Parent folder" column in the library listing through the View menu (or the context menu of the column headers). You can't sort entries using that column, though.

Links

• Linky :: Firefox Add-ons, total number of links and images on the page is provided before continuing from main context menu, extension provides for opening many tabs from a selection of selected page links into new tabs but if your selection count exceeds 99 links you must reduce the selection area or the number of check-marked links and work from there to get usable counts.
• Snap Links Plus or Multi Links 1.0.0.12 :: Firefox Add-ons allow you to open links with a drawable selection area. Snap Links Plus allows you to see in the status bar how many links you have selected.
• Links Counter :: Firefox Add-ons counts external links without 'nofollow', external links with 'nofollow' and domain internal links in a page. (Has not been updated for current versions of Firefox)
• Also see Bookmarks (above), and Bookmarklets (below).

Page size

• Size of current page, subject to server response. "Tools -> Page Info -> General (tab)"
• The Web Developer Firefox add-on provides total page weight, size including all images, stylesheets. "Web Developer -> Information -> View Document Size". The report can be expanded to show size of each item.

Position

• [CustomizeGoogle :: Add-ons for Firefox], provides option for item position counter in Google web search (not available in groups search).

Tabs

• Tab Counter :: Firefox Add-ons, counts the number of open tabs per window and displays the count in a toolbar. (22KB)  22 
• TabCounter :: Firefox Add-ons, tab counters on status bar (separate boxes). Provides some historical stats as well. (9KB)  22|25    3|25 
• Open Tab Count :: Firefox Add-ons, displays the number of open tabs for each window and the total number of open tabs (in all windows) in the status bar. (4KB)  22/25    3/25 
• TabCount :: Firefox Add-ons status bar panel to display the number of currently open tabs both in the active window and across all windows. (6KB)  22/25    3/25 
• Count of History items within current tab (back/forward key) and all tabs, not a count of the links within the active page.

Items shown with borders are as shown on statusbar, toolbars, or in dialog boxes, or a selected button.

Addons

• Count Em All :: Firefox Add-ons Counts your addons, plugins, themes, cookies, downloads, and error console messages! Count [Experimental]

Body

• Quick Calculator :: Firefox Add-ons, Show SUM MIN MAX AVERAGE and QUANTITY of selected items in status bar. 44KB) [Experimental]

• timmyminer - mozdev.org word & expressions frequency counts

• Text Area Word Counter :: Firefox Add-ons (10 KB), Gina Trapani, total number of words, total characters with and without spaces not counting HTML. Total of all the text areas in a document.

• Word Count Plus :: Firefox Add-ons Counts number of words in selected text (browser content pane). Can add the count to a running total. Shown on status bar (space hog). [Beta with shortcuts (13KB)] (9KB)  22|25   2 words | 128 total 

Bookmarklets

If not found below most are in k.html for folders to install on bookmarks toolbar.

• Character Count :: Form Bookmarklets (F), Displays a running count of the characters in each textbox.  [ keyword: character:count ]

javascript:(function(){var%20D=document,i,f,j,e;for(i=0;f=D.forms[i];++i)for(j=0;e=f[j];++j)if(e.type=="text"||e.type=="password"||e.tagName.toLowerCase()=="textarea")S(e);function%20S(e){if(!e.N){var%20x=D.createElement("span"),s=x.style;s.color="green";s.background="white";s.font="bold%2010pt%20sans-serif";s.verticalAlign="top";e.parentNode.insertBefore(x,e.nextSibling);function%20u(){x.innerHTML=e.value.length;}u();e.onchange=u;e.onkeyup=u;e.oninput=u;e.N=x;}else{e.parentNode.removeChild(e.N);e.N=0;}}})()

• count strings on a page (ID), provides a dialog "Search for what string?"

 lowercase   --  Found 7 occurrences of "lowercase". 

javascript:void%20new%20Function(%22var%20c=0,w=prompt('Search%20for%20what%20string?',''),y=pageYOffset;if(w){while(find(w))c++;scrollBy(0,y-pageYOffset);alert('Found%20'+c+'%20occurrence'+(c==1?'':'s')+'%20of%20\%22'+w+'\%22.')}%22).call()

• href: (not a count), expands all links on a page to show the url or JavaScript code with href="..." of anchor tags (" HREF visible, keyword: href:) based on “Paren Tips” (keyword: parentips:) makes Title with HTML visible ([1])

javascript:(function(){%20var%20z=[],N,href,tc,j;%20function%20r(N)%20{%20if%20(N.href)%20z.push(N);%20var%20C=N.childNodes,i;for(i=0;i<C.length;++i)r(C[i]);%20}%20r(document.body);%20for%20(j%20in%20z)%20{%20N=z[j];%20href=document.createTextNode(%22%20[--\u00A0%22+N.href+%22%20--]%22);%20tc=document.createElement(%22span%22);%20tc.style.color=%22green%22;%20tc.style.background=%22#FFEE99%22;%20tc.appendChild(href);%20N.parentNode.insertBefore(tc,N.nextSibling);%20N.parentNode.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(%22%20%22),tc);%20}})();

• href:count, Count of HREF in HTML anchor tags, You can see this in action by clicking on link that has "href:count" within k.html works on an exported bookmarks.html file produces a box like  Href count: 585 [OK]  (similar to keywords:count)

javascript:(function(){var%20c='red',e=document.getElementsByTagName('a'),E,k=0,n,t;%20for(i=0;E=e[i];i++){t=E.getAttribute('HREF');%20if(t&&t!=''){n=document.createElement('span');%20n.style.color=c;n.innerHTML='['+t+']';%20E.appendChild(n);k++}}%20alert('HREF%20count:%20'+k);})()

• keywords:count, Count keywords example ([2]) – You can see this in action by clicking on k.html link that has "keywords:" within an exported bookmarks.html file produces a box like  Keywords found: 417 [OK]  -- goal would be for this to work from a selection

nowiki>javascript:(function(){var%20c='red',e=document.getElementsByTagName('a'),E,k=0,n,t;%20for(i=0;E=e[i];i++){t=E.getAttribute('SHORTCUTURL');%20if(t&&t!=){n=document.createElement('span');%20n.style.color=c;n.innerHTML='['+t+']';%20E.appendChild(n);k++}}%20alert('shortcuts%20found:%20'+k);})()</nowiki>

• word frequency Lists the words in the page and how many times each word appears.

javascript:(function(){var%20T={},W=[],C=0,s,i;%20function%20F(n){var%20i,x,a,w,t=n.tagName;if(n.nodeType==3){a=n.data.toLowerCase().split(/[\s\(\)\:\,\.;\<\>\&\'\"]/);for(i%20in%20a)if(w=a[i]){w="%20"+w;T[w]=T[w]?T[w]+1:1;++C;}}if(t!="SCRIPT"&&t!="STYLE")for(i=0;x=n.childNodes[i];++i)F(x)}F(document);for(i%20in%20T)W.push([T[i],i]);W.sort(function(a,b){var%20x=b[0]-a[0];return%20x?x:((b[1]<a[1])?1:-1)});%20s="<h3>"+C+"%20words</h3>";for(i%20in%20W)s+=W[i][0]+":"+W[i][1]+"<br>";with(open().document){write(s);close()}})()

• words: word count, get bookmarklet at k.html test by selecting a few words, or if you seleted the entire page you might see something like  words in selection: 11615 

javascript:alert('words%20in%20selection:%20'%20+%20document.getSelection().split('%20').length)

Tables

• TableTools :: Firefox Add-ons sorts, filters or copies any HTML table. (thought this did totaling, perhaps not)
• Quick Calculator :: Firefox Add-ons Show SUM MIN MAX AVERAGE and QUANTITY of selected items in status bar. [Experimental]

External links

• Bug 451151 - Search box In Places Organizer (Library) not behaving correctly (this is the primary problem with searches, and is marked as a blocker for 3.1)

Note also the disappearing/reappearing scope at the top of the Library listing, only appears after first doing a search.

Search:    Selected Folder    All Bookmarks   History

• Bug 469436 - In the context bar when searching in the library "selected folder" should be the actual folder name
• Bug 469437 - Searches in bookmarks sub-folders of the Library window should default to the context of All Bookmarks ("Search Bookmarks")
• Bug 479837 – (Enhancement) - Clear up scope ambiguity of Library Searches and include counts

Search:   Selected Folder (only)    Selected Folder & all subfolders    All Bookmarks   History