139375 - [RFE] New Bookmark in Context Menu for Bookmark Folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Roger]

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When editing books marks, there's only one way to add a bookmark and that is by
doing "manage bookmarks" > File > New > bookmark.

You apperantly cannot simply right click on the folder where you want a new
bookmark and right click and create it as there is no option at that point to
'create a bookmark'...but you can create a folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1a. manage bookmarks
 b. File > New > bookmark (You can create new blank bookmark this way)

2a. manage bookmarks
 b. right click on a folder and try to creat a new blank bookmark (no option to
do so!)

Actual Results:  nada

Expected Results:  to be able to create new blank bookmark anywhere in manage
bookmarks applet

(btw, the easy-to-add a new bug form works great. don't have to mess around
trying to decipher bugzilla anymore!...any user can submit a bug...lol)

Comment 1

[mental]

*** Bug 140598 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Andy Edmonds]

Marking new to get off the unconfirm list.

I could not find a dup, but bug 135841 seems to be where the bookmark context
menu action is.

In addition, this feature does appear to be in the *ahem* specification:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/communicator/framework/contextmenus/cmrev2-3a.html#Anchor-Supported-30189

Comment 3

[Michael Gabriel]

i dont think this is an enhancement, this is a quite severe bug. its very
confusing and annoying

Comment 4

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

*** Bug 162465 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 147785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Andreas Kunz]

Duplicate of bug 85895 ?

Comment 7

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

Re: Comment #2 From Andy Edmonds 2002-05-29 16:42
> Marking new to get off the unconfirm list.

What's the point in 'UNCONFIRMED' if you're confirming bugs just for the sake of
"getting them off the unconfirmed list"?

Re: Comment #3 From Michael Gabriel 2002-08-05 17:21
> i dont think this is an enhancement, this is a quite severe bug. its very
> confusing and annoying

I figure you're just as confused and annoyed when finding out that no context
menu of folders in Windows Explorer have such a 'New' item?

Re: Comment #6 From Andreas Kunz 2002-10-26 17:23 -------
> Duplicate of bug 85895 ?

No. Bug 85895 is about the same menu item for any bookmark manager and bookmark
sidebar contextual menus.

Anyway, I'll wontfix this. It just doesn't seem logical to me. I've just checked
various browsers and they do not have this menu item either. Additionally, there
hasn't been any comment of a developer wanting to implement this, so this
probably won't get fixed anyway.

Comment 8

[:deanis74]

We have New Folder but not New Bookmark.  This doesn't make sense, as at least I
use New Bookmark more than New Folder.

Comment 9

[Peter Tandler]

In Bug 147785 the "new separator" command for the sidebar context menu was
mentioned. I think this would really be a good enhancement. And I don't see why
one should be able to create a new folder, but not a new separator.
--> I'd suggest to re-open this bug.

Comment 10

[:deanis74]

I'm going to re-open this.  Without the context menu, you have to create a
top-level bookmark and then drag it into the appropriate folder.

Comment 11

[James B. Higgs]

This is also a Netscape 4.x compatability issue. NS4 had a "New Bookmark" in the context menu if you right-clicked on a folder *or* a bookmark.

Jim H. (aka CuriousJ)

Comment 12

[Phoenix]

WFM here
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