119710 - Change bookmark title when page title changes

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Bennett]

Many pages change their titles over time, but bookmark titles do not change
unless manually edited. I propose that, whenever a bookmark is selected from the
menu, that Mozilla compare the title of the page to the bookmark title, and
update the bookmark if they re different. Alternately, there should be a button
in the bookmark editor that would request that Mozilla check the title of one or
more bookmarks, and update them if appropriate.

Comment 1

[xyzzy]

Heh, was just thinking about this today...

Think this is 4xp, because I remember this happening before and I hated it! 
Most web sites do a horrible job naming their pages, and when my carefully
chosen names are replaced, I feel violated.  If does happen, please make it a
pref, so I can turn it off...

The alternate proposal is probably a bit to specific to be good UI.

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

A pref for this would be supremely silly, and (if the feature was a good idea 
at all) nor would it be needed.

Just keep an attribute for each bookmark recording whether the bookmark's title 
has ever renamed. If it hasn't, then when the page is loaded, check if the page 
title and the bookmark title match. If they don't, rename the bookmark.

There are two pitfalls here:
(1) It may be more disorienting than useful. This couldn't really be judged
    without implementing it and trying it out for a year or two (enough for
    several sites, and pages, to change their names).
(2) There would be a perf hit caused by matching the current page against the
    bookmarks each time (bug 10197).

Someone should file a bug to do the equivalent thing for bookmarks which are 
301 Moved Permanently or 410 Gone.

Comment 3

[timeless]

anyone want to guess how many bugs we'll get for people who have bookmark lists 
auto sorted and complain that their bookmark disappeared?

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Interesting thought, but likely to be hell to implement in a bug free fashion,
and likely to piss people off as timeless suggests.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Verified wontfix. This would be good for URIs, but bad for titles.