285042 - Bookmark retention option to further simplify the use of online books, manuals, and archives

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Brian Scott Dobrovodsky]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050228 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050228 Firefox/1.0.1

A bookmark option to retain the last visited url atop the bookmark url. A
bookmark of 'http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/' would only retain a url which
contains the 'http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/' base url. Leaving the base url
would deactivate the url retention of the particular bookmark and you would be
able to use the window/tab normally. More over, re-opening the bookmark would
send you to the last visited url.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ben Fowler]

This is probably a bad idea. The items on the bookmark menu should be there
only because you the user have bookmarked them.

Last visited items can be found on the URL bar, the Go menu and the history
tab in the sidebar.

Comment 2

[Brian Scott Dobrovodsky]

(In reply to comment #1)
Perhaps an example would better illustrate this feature.

I want to learn python. So I go to python's website, bookmark it and enable
retention. After browsing through the site and reading a few chapters I close
firefox. The next day, I open the bookmark and it puts me on the chapter where I
left off, instead of taking me where the bookmark was originally created.

Comment 3

[Ben Fowler]

It is certainly possible to bookmark fragment identifiers.

Is what you asking for, a save state/save session feature? If so it
is a dup of one (or more) exisiting bugs.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[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