458663 - Places queries should be able to control the sort order within child elements

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[mozilla]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081005 Minefield/3.1b1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20081005 Minefield/3.1b1pre

In it's current state, the sort parameter is only applied to first level results (e.g. when using place:type=6&sort=1 in a smart bookmark, only the tags get sorted, not the bookmarks within).

There should be a way to specify both, the search order for the top level results and the sort order for the second level results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

i must admin orderby application is confusing, not sure what's a solution, but still confirming for brainstorming.

Comment 2

[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

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.