176400 - Cannot search URL (location), only the name

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Rack]

Bookmark - enhanced find.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This has been in the release notes since 0.1 I believe. Setting status to New
(do we really not have this reported already?)

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 3

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

Why is this bug "After Firefox 1.0"? Even bug 171575 (Implement "find bookmark")
is set as "Firefox 1.0".

Comment 4

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

Attachment: No locale change patch

Some more labels would make UI more user-friendly, I think.

e.g.
Search: |foo	 | in |Location|

I'm not sure "in" is grammatically correct though.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't know how we're going to deal with UI changes post PR, so this might not
even make 1.0.

Its not a blocker at present, if its safe/low-risk enough, we might consider it,
but we wouldn't block the release on this.

Will review as soon as I have time.

Comment 6

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

Comment on attachment 158509 [details] [diff] [review]
No locale change patch

There's really no reason for the dropdown menu -- IMO, searching should always
search url/name/description/shortcut.  Being able to select which one to look
for, esp. for a quick search dialog, seems like UI bloat.

Would gladly take a patch that just always searched all of them, though.

Comment 7

[O. Atsushi (Torisugari)]

> There's really no reason for the dropdown menu -- IMO, searching should always
> search url/name/description/shortcut.  Being able to select which one to look
> for, esp. for a quick search dialog, seems like UI bloat.though.

Everything in one toolbar is reasonable, 
because users can search bookmarks in the same maner
as they do with browser.
Vlad, do you think bug 171575 is still valid?

Comment 8

[Bruno R. Weber]

and if i find a bockmark, I look again so long in which folder it is.
Please help me for more comfort and more user-friendly.
thanks to for execution soon.

Comment 9

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

*** Bug 268667 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Gustav Wall]

and if i find a bockmark, I look again so long in which folder it is.
Please help me for more comfort and more user-friendly.
thanks to for execution soon.

Comment 11

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #8)
> and if i find a bockmark, I look again so long in which folder it is.
> Please help me for more comfort and more user-friendly.
> thanks to for execution soon.

bug 171575 (hopefully soon)

mod summary

Comment 12

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 303617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[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 15

[Julian D. A. Wiseman]

The below was, duplicatively (sorry!), posted as bug 365240. I am reposting here because it shows an example of what a user wants to do. 
 - - - - - -
My bookmarks include the press releases page of various central banks. Eg.:
   http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2006/
   http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/news/2006/
As 2006 ends I want to replace in my large collection of bookmarks instances of "2006" with "2007". Please could the bookmarks manager acquire a menu item "Find in Bookmarks...  Ctrl+F" that allows searches for strings in the titles and the URLs? 

Comment 16

[ljbmailprotect-mozilla]

Julian,
There are several extensions to FF two of which I use that do exactly what you want:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3543/
Advanced Bookmark Search | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/494/
Enhanced Bookmark Search | Firefox Add-ons | Mozilla Corporation

Although there is a lot of overlap in functionality between the two I use them both to give me the most flexible bookmark searching.

Comment 18

[Edward Girard]

Bug 376692?  A "Resolved Duplicate"??? Where is it resolved?

While I'm confused as to how this a duplicate of (this) bug 176400 based on my
description and the context of the bug report, I also can see why this
bug/issue has never been addressed and fixed.  If this is original bug, it's
much too vague for anyone to understand.

However, Julian D. A. Wiseman noted above two FF add-ons that may serve the
functionality I desire.  Seems someone else out there saw the necessity of this functionality and went ahead and developed the enhancement seeing the FF development team wasn't.

Also, Pierre Chanial is assigned this issue/bug.  Shouldn't he be on the CC list?

Thanks

Comment 19

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

(In reply to comment #18)
> Bug 376692?  A "Resolved Duplicate"??? Where is it resolved?

All dupes have "resolved" just for the sake of sorting bugs.

Also lately the focus is on Places that is going to replace Bookmark, so someone can submit a bug in the other category.

Comment 20

[Paul J. Weiss]

Works for me in Firefox 3.

Comment 21

[bomfog]

(In reply to comment #20)
> Works for me in Firefox 3.

Likewise for me, in history and bookmark sidebars, urlbar, and library/organizer.

Marking WFM (and moving to Places component).

If I err, someone please correct me.

PS
> "Pierre Chanial is assigned this issue/bug.  Shouldn't he be on the CC
> list?"

Assignee's bugmail is automatic, I believe.

Comment 22

[Edward Girard]

I think the first comment - "enhanced find" - really covers what's needed here - unfortunately, it wasn't clear enough ;-)

The Firefox bookmark search functionality is lame at best.  In addition to Name and Location, bookmark information can be stored in keywords and description While tags can be searched, keywords and description are not.  Why?  Why even have them?

Also, one you find a bookmark, there's no way on Earth to know where in your bookmarks library the bookmark resides.

Hopefully the "Places" component functionality is more robust...

Comment 23

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv