1205058 - Support deletion of default pseudo-bookmarks on Firefox iOS app

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox for iOS :: Home screen, defect)

Description

[Maria Popova]

Like on Fennec, user user be able to delete default bookmarks in Firefox iOS app.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This was WONTFIXED in bug 1188563 did we change our mind?

Comment 2

[Darrin Henein [:darrin]]

I don't think we were happy with the resolution there as a long-term solution, but had to make a call for v1. Complexity aside, these default bookmarks should:

a) not sync
b) be delete-able

Comment 3

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

I agree with Darrin. On Android, we're able to delete them and I'd rather provide the same degree of control to our iOS users.

Comment 4

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

This is relatively straightforward; we can just store deletions in user defaults, and check those before adding the suggested sites as pseudo-bookmarks to the end of the model.

I'm reworking some of that code in Bug 1201109, and it will change again for full-fledged Bug 1196238, so this ought to wait until that churn is done.

Comment 5

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

BTW - we had a user send through an idea in Aha where one of his points touched on this. He's frustrated that he can't remove the two default Top Sites thumbnails (same reason as the bookmarks, I know). His stance is that he doesn't keep his history and he's feeling forced to see Mozilla sites when he has no interest in them. He wants some aspect of his experience back under his control.

Comment 6

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Create AHA card -> 2.0

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Was mentioned to me a couple times by a few different folks in Orlando as a gripe

Comment 8

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Will investigate technical details to scope for 3.0.

Comment 9

[Bryan Munar (:bkmunar)]

Took them out altogether and replaced with the empty bookmark state