151540 - Unable to edit bookmark entries

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[James Madill]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529
BuildID:    2002052918

Once a web page is added to the bookmarks, it cannot be edited (not to change
the name, location, or comments).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Bookmark an html file.
2.Select "Manage bookmarks" from the Bookmarks menu
3.Select a bookmarked web page.
4.No way to edit the entry



Actual Results:  Nothing.

Expected Results:  Either a menu choice allowing editing of bookmark entry
should exist, or  clicking on the entry should allow editing from the bookmark
window.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using FizzillaCFM/2002061014. James, to edit a bookmark, select the
bookmark, then either click "Properties..." on the toolbar, choose
"Edit/Properties..." from the system menu bar, or choose "Properties" from the
contextual menu.

Let us know if that works for you.

Comment 2

[Eric Eldridge]

WorksForME aswell, using Mozilla 2002061308 on Mac OS 10.1.5.  The suggestions
made in Comment #1 work as expected.

Comment 3

[James Madill]

On further investigation not all of my bookmark entries are
uneditable/undeleteable.  They aren't limited to local pages or remote pages. 
The local pages have been resolved.  It was an (automatic) import issue from IE.

The problem bookmarks are still a mystery.  One of them is a link to my
departmental web server.  I can go to the link from a bookmarked entry no
problem, but I can't do anything with it.  Editing the bookmarks file will
remove it, but adding it via the "Add To Bookmarks" menu option brings it back
as uneditable.  Is there some other file that contains information about the
bookmarks that needs to be edited?

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

James, try the same procedure with a new Mozilla user profile; create the
profile, and add the bookmark. See if you can edit it then. (Maybe your profile
has become corrupt somehow; this will help determine that.)

Comment 5

[James Madill]

Creating a new profile and bookmarking one of the links I was unable to modify
or delete worked.  When I imported the bookmark file from the old profile, the
preoblem reappeared.  I then performed the divide and conquer method and
discovered the bad entry in the bookmarks file.  It was:

<DT><A HREF="NC:IEFavoritesRoot" LAST_MODIFIED="1024022819">Imported IE
Favorites</A>

As you can see, it is a combination of a web link and a folder.  I don't know
just when the bookmarked links in Mozilla became uneditable, but it was probably
when the second instance of the "Imported IE Favorites" folder appeared.  I
can't tell you steps that lead up to that.

The curious thing was that I could delete the bad entry from the "Manage
Bookmarks" screen, but that didn't eliminate the problem.  Only removing the
corrupt line before inputing the old bookmarks file worked.

I apologise for not being able to provide more of the details, but I have had my
hands full with upgrading this old machine to OS X.  (A Wallstreet PowerBook -
the bare minimum hardware requirements).  I also played around with different
applications in order to find OS X versions that was as close to the System 9
counterparts.

In all, it looks like the code for importing bookmarks is a bit more sensitive
to syntax than the browser display code is (the browser would ignore the bad
HTML tag).

Comment 6

[Tobias Schacht (mail address is obsolete)]

I see this problem to with 2002062504-trunk Win98. Can't edit|rename|delete
bookmarks. I tried to use the bookmarks from my 1.0 profile => same results:
they work under 1.0, with the trunk-build bookmarks are not editable. Also the
trunk-bookmarks work with Mozilla 1.0.

Comment 7

[Tobias Schacht (mail address is obsolete)]

I made some further tests with 2002062508-trunk Win98:

1. new profile => default bookmarks are editable
2. copied my trunk-bookmarks => bookmarks uneditable
3. deleted trunk-bookmarks, started Mozilla (creates new default bookmarks)
   => these bookmarks are again not editable

BTW: I don't have this 'bad' entry
(<DT><A HREF="NC:IEFavoritesRoot" LAST_MODIFIED="1024022819">Imported IE
Favorites</A>)
in my bookmarks.

Comment 8

[James Madill]

I found that once the bookmark file became corrupted (uneditable entries), the
only solution was to create a new profile.  Importing the old bookmarks in a bit
at a time can determine the bad entries.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

Just to be sure, none of you guys are trying to edit the "Imported IE
Favorites," right?

Comment 10

[Tobias Schacht (mail address is obsolete)]

Right.

Comment 11

[David G King]

I see this problem with build 2002070504 under Win98SE.

Changing bug to New, although it may be marked a dup of Bug #153828

Comment 12

[u51419]

On 1.2a (2002072104) I have no bookmark functionality at all except to add
bookmarks. Seems to be a severe lack of programmer resources because bookmarks
worked pretty much OK on 1.0 but its almost as if bookmark functionality has not
been tested for any release since then.

Comment 13

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I can't repro this on 1.1.4 with Mac OS 10.4.10. Has probably been fixed for years, closing as wfm.