236330 - Firefox does not save Bookmarks in the Main Folder by Default

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 232467

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[pagan716]

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

Firefox does not save Bookmarks by Default in the Main Bookmark Folder. By
Default it saves them in the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder ; If I change this the
default location for Bookmarks after the next restart of Firefox is again
Toolbar Folder. 
Firefox remembers to use custom created folders, the problem applies only to the
main folder. See also :

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=408211#408211

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add to Bookmarks - current default save location Toolbar Folder
2. Create in Bookmarks 
3. Restart Firefox 
4. Add to Bookmarks - points to the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder again

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

Confirming this bug. Firefox will always use the last folder that a bookmark was
saved in as the default, unless Firefox has been restarted and the last folder
was the main Bookmarks folder, in which case, it will default to the folder last
saved in before that.

We should probably implement something like the following:

+ Within browing session
  - It defaults to the last folder that a bookmark was saved in.

+ Per restart of Firefox
  - Always default to main Bookmarks folder at start of session.

I think this is a pretty sensible behaviour.

Comment 2

[Pham]

what about bug 232467

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

yes, this is really a dupe (same behaviour, needs review/clarification)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 232467 ***

Comment 4

[Ali Ebrahim]

v

Comment 5

[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