347614 - enable 'auto-sort' for bookmarks-menu following the rules set in bookmark-manager

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250787

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060805 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060805 BonEcho/2.0b1

i'd like to have following small enhancement of bookmark handling:

(let's say you have A-Z ordering set in the bookmarks-manager)

- after you add an bookmark

a) using creation in a certain folder: it should be automatically sorted the way by the rule set in the bookmarks-manager (in this case A-Z ordering)

b) the 'normal' way of just adding to the root: after a 'browsing-session' when you were too lazy to specify adding the bookmark to a certain folder (as described in a) you want to do it afterwards using the bookmark-menu. so you drag'n'drop all those new bookmarks from the root to your destination folders. the dropped bookmark should be sorted automatically following the rule set in the bookmark-manager (in this case A-Z)


the handling now is kinda pedestrian:

after adding bookmarks using methods described in a) or b) you have to open the destination folder for every bookmark (using here the menu or manager makes no difference), right-click an entry & click 'sort-by-name'.

i repeat it again: this should really be done automatically.
above wished behaviour should of course be un-/checkable somewhere.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

maybe this depends on bug 250787 and should be switched to 'places/future'.

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

This actually looks like a dupe of that bug. Marking so. But I'm going to add the original report here to that bug as it is clearer. I'll also make the necessary component and target adjustments in that bug.