251405 - View live bookmark as a web page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Percy Cabello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040712 Firefox/0.9.1+

There should exist an option to open Livemarks as a single web page: the XML
(RSS/Atom feed) with a themable XSL so the feed can be presented as a web page
including excerpts feed posts usually have.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Bookmarks menu
2. Locate a Livemark
3.

Actual Results:  
When you click on a livemark folder it does nothing.

Expected Results:  
Clicking on a livemark could open a webpage consisting of the XML feed with a
themable XSL to keep it consistant with the general interface.
Or, like the supressed "Open in tabs" option available for bookmark folders, add
an option "Open this livemark", preferable placed at the top, before all
livemark items.
Or, do both.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Confirming RFE.

Comment 2

[Daniel Guido]

what if mousedown on the livemark opened the list of entries and then as normal
a mouseup on a livemark entry went to that entry but a livemark on the parent
just went to the originating webpage? that way a livemark can double as a bookmark.

i dont know maybe you're going for something different.

Comment 3

[Daniel Guido]

what if mousedown on the livemark opened the list of entries and then as normal
a mouseup on a livemark entry went to that entry but a mouseup on the parent
just went to the originating webpage? that way a livemark can double as a bookmark.

i dont know maybe you're going for something different.

Comment 4

[Percy Cabello]

Updated the description to live bookmark.

Also, in initial report I meant that the XSL could be themable so the livemark
render would match the general look.

Comment 5

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

The Live Bookmarks feature is not intended to be used as a RSS reader; what
you're describing is the domain of Thunderbird's RSS bits, or an extension like
Sage.

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 275185 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

Feedview (https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=445) effectively
fixes bug 275185 and this.

Comment 8

[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