255129 - Bookmarks doesn't pre-select the last folder used in the "create in" dropdown, only ever the top "Bookmarks" folder

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[junk]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040810 Firefox/0.9.1+ (MOOX M3)

Bookmarks doesn't pre-select the last folder used in the "create in" dropdown,
only ever the top "Bookmarks" folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
click "Bookmark this page...," or ctrl-d


Actual Results:  
bookmarks dialog opens with the top-level "Bookmarks" folder selected

Expected Results:  
bookmarks dialog should open with the last-used bookmarks folder pre-selected

Noticed it began a week or so before the end of July and has contiued with
various nightlies (i'm using Moox builds if relevant).

Comment 1

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

This is intentional; see bug 232089.

Comment 2

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 255128 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[junk]

>>This is intentional

A bit annoying. I'd rather have the last one pre-selected as you often bookmark
similar items in a row.

Comment 4

[Jay Freeman (saurik)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> >>This is intentional
> 
> A bit annoying. I'd rather have the last one pre-selected as you often bookmark
> similar items in a row.

I completely agree with this comment. The behavior in the original Netscape was
to have a specific folder marked as "add bookmarks by default to this location".
If you did Ctrl-D to add a bookmark (or whatever the keybinding was, I believe
that's right, though), it would silently add it to that folder. Because of how
easy it was to bookmark things _and_ keep them organized (bookmarking things is
useless if they all go to the same folder) I tended to have folders for
different topics I was interested in, and as I navagated through thought space I
would move that "bookmark to here" destination accourdingly.

When Netscape stopped being regularly updated and I switched to IE oh so many
years ago, bookmarks was the #1 feature I missed. IE's favorites always
defaulted to the same folder unless you browsed through the folder hierarchy to
add it in the right place (which tends to take a while when you have a lot of
bookmarks, both due to a growing tree and a growing number of items).

Result? I pretty much _stopped using favorites_ because the upkeep was too
troublesome.

The sane "the next bookmark is 99% of the time going to go to the same place as
the old bookmark" behavior (which is even better than Netscape's old system) is
one of the killer reasons I _switched to Firefox in the first place_, and now
it's been removed? :( Is there at least going to be some standard extension for
going back to the useful behavior?

If it wasn't for the security issue fixed in 0.10.1 I'd actually not upgrade
because of this.

Comment 5

[Jay Freeman (saurik)]

Ok, I even have a good analogy to add to this, hehe. When you save things to
disk, the Save As dialog comes up to the same folder you saved the last file to.
You wouldn't expect it to revert back to your home directory and force you to go
back through the (possibly complex) directory traversal to get back to where you
last saved something, right? ;P

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 265748 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[DanaKil]

(In reply to comment #4)
> (In reply to comment #3)

> one of the killer reasons I _switched to Firefox in the first place_, and now
> it's been removed? :( Is there at least going to be some standard extension for
> going back to the useful behavior?

there is a nice extension called "OpenBook" who can do that
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/

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

Comment 9

[Adam Porter]

This is extremely frustrating.

I do not ever, EVER want to put a bookmark in the Bookmarks Menu.  Why?  Because my Bookmarks Menu has so many bookmarks in it already, that when I accidentally mouse over the menu, it fills my entire screen!  Then I have to close all the menus completely and carefully NOT hover over the bookmarks menu.

Well, that's what I used to do.  Finally I moved ALL of my bookmarks into Unsorted Bookmarks, where they belong--I stopped using the bookmarks MENU when the Awesomebar came out.  Why would I want to waste time mousing around through a hierarchy when a couple of keystrokes in the Awesomebar pulls up what I want?

So I file ALL my bookmarks in Unsorted Bookmarks, but every time I Ctrl+D to quickly bookmark a page, Firefox insists on selecting Bookmarks Menu!  So I have to waste time changing it back to Unsorted Bookmarks, every time!

Please, at least make an about:config option to set the default bookmarks folder!  Firefox is devolving into the browser for dummies, but its roots were as the browser of power!  What's going on?!