110799 - All duplicates are aliases

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51683

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stephane Chauveau]

I have noticed that bookmarks with EXACTLY the same url are aliases
and have the same name. I don't know if this is a feature but I do
not like it because

- it can be interesting to have duplicates with different names. For 
example, one with a short name in the toolbar and one with a longer
but more explicit name in a folder.

- if you bookmark a page that already exists in the database, the 
existing entry get the new page name.

- it is relatively easy to destroy a bookmark. For example
   (1) consider a bookmark "http://www.foo.com/foo.html"
   (2) copy this bookmark in a different folder (duplicates

   (3) change the url in the copy to "http://www.bla.com/bla.html"
 Effect: Both the original and the copy are modified
 Expected: Only the copy should be modified.

       
      
 



   

 


build: 20011110806 (linux)

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51683 ***

Comment 2

[Claudius Gayle]

congratulations you've stumbled across the fatal flaw in the bookmarks architecture.

VERIFIED Dupe.