1087459 - Bookmark keyword becomes lowercase on saving.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[u328884]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0
Build ID: 20140315085348

Steps to reproduce:

Select <bla-bla-bla> bookmark (i.e., any arbitrary bookmark).
Right-click & select "Properties"
(Opens "Properties for <bla-bla-bla>" dialog).
For "Keyword:" enter 'ABC' (without quotes) as a string.
Click "Save" button.
(Closes "Properties for <bla-bla-bla>" dialog).
Re-open <bla-bla-bla> bookmark properties.


Actual results:

String for "Keyword:" is now 'abc' (lower case), not 'ABC' (the uppercase text that ws entered).


Expected results:

The string for "Keyword:" should be 'ABC' as it was when entered. FFox should NOT change its case. Why does FFox do this sort of nonsense?

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

Reproduced with
2006-12-16-04-trunk.firefox-3.0a1.en-US.linux-i686 (not on leaving field)
2007-05-25-04-trunk.firefox-3.0a5pre.en-US.linux-i686 (not on leaving field)
2008-09-18-02-mozilla-central-firefox-3.1b1pre.en-US.linux-x86_64
2009-12-13-03-mozilla-central-firefox-3.7a1pre.en-US.linux-x86_64
2010-08-12-03-mozilla-central-firefox-4.0b4pre.en-US.linux-x86_64
2010-08-15-03-mozilla-central-firefox-4.0b4pre.en-US.linux-x86_64
2014-10-28-03-02-04-mozilla-central-firefox-36.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64

See also bug 590081.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

as expressed in bug 590081, keywords are case insensitive, and thus they are lowercased when stored.
We think it's too confusing to allow different casing for the same word.

Comment 3

[u328884]

To Marco,

Why are keywords case insensitive? You can think any confusing thought you like. Your determination is incorrect. This needs to be reopened.

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

(In reply to Mark Filipak from comment #3)
> This needs to be reopened.

Then you didn't want to verify the closure.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Mark Filipak from comment #3)
> Why are keywords case insensitive? You can think any confusing thought you
> like. Your determination is incorrect. This needs to be reopened.

I'm sorry, but based on experience with our users, it's much easier to have case insensitive keywords for the most and not have to remember how you typed each specific keyword.  Unless we find _very sound_ reasons to change that, I don't think it will ever happen.

Comment 6

[u328884]

How about putting a "[_] Match case" check box right next to it like is done with "Find"?

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

As is said, the cases where a user needs to have 2 identical keywords with different cases are so rare that it's not worth the cost of implementing and maintaining the feature. I'm sorry but I don't think we will change this decision without data explicitly showing this would be useful for at least 10% of our users.