233595 - Bookmarks folders: impossible to create more than one during one opening of the bookmarks pane

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[wilsr]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Opening the bookmarks pane and right-clicking allows the creation of a new
folder. In Firebird you could create as many as you wished: important when first
commissioning the browser.
In FFox 0.8 you seem to be able to create only one bookmark folder. If you want
to create more than one you have to quit the bookmark pane and re-enter it, when
agian you can create one new folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.as above
2.
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Actual Results:  
As description

Expected Results:  
Allowed as many new folders to be created as you wish before quitting the
bookmark pane

Comment 1

[Anders Kaseorg]

This seems to happen because nothing is selected after creating a new folder
(and also after dragging an item somewhere), and right-clicking in the empty
space when nothing is selected does not show a menu. Right-clicking on an
existing item, or selecting an item and then right-clicking in the empty space,
works.

I'm on Linux, so you can change OS to All.

Comment 2

[Jason Barnabe (np)]

Works fine on the truck Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7a)
Gecko/20040210 Firebird/0.8.0+

Comment 3

[riscky]

I can create more than one folder in the bookmarks pane if and only if some item
is selected.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040427
Firefox/0.8.0+

I'm able to make multiple folders on the some instance of the bookmarks pane...
if something is selected... otherwise folder creation fails.

Comment 4

[Stewart Campbell]

This works for me on
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040503
Firefox/0.8.0+

So long as I right click on the bookmarks toolbar folder, I am able to keep
adding New Folders, whether or not something is selected on the toolbar or not.

Comment 5

[Samir L. Boulema]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040408
Firefox/0.8.0+

if you can reproduce with a new build, please reopen.

Comment 6

[Anders Kaseorg]

Stewart, it sounds like you didn't read my comment 1; the problem is with
right-clicking in the *empty* area when nothing is selected. The bug is still
present in today's nightly. Please reopen this.

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change