1383498 - List no default bookmarks at all

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Jason]

Attachment: Current Default Bookmarks Listing

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Build ID: 20170722072631

Steps to reproduce:

Click the "Bookmarks" button.


Actual results:

There are too many default bookmarks.


Expected results:

Show no default bookmarks at all; show *only* the user's bookmarks.

Regardless of how often users may or may not click the current default bookmarks, I do not believe they are appreciated.  They clutter the default experience.  Chrome is comparatively clean.

The following is the default for Firefox:

--View Bookmarks Sidebar
--Show All Bookmarks
--5 bookmarks under "Recently Bookmarked."
--View Pocket List
--Bookmarks Toolbar
--Other Bookmarks
--Recent Tags
--Mozilla Firefox
--Show All Bookmarks (yes, again)

See screenshot for complete list.

I would show only the following:

--Bookmarks Toolbar
--(list of user's bookmarks not in the Bookmarks Toolbar)

This would make it simpler to understand for new users and closer to what other browsers already offer.

Comment 1

[Jason]

Attachment: comparison.png

I've attached an image comparison between the default bookmarks of Chrome and Firefox.

As you can see, Chrome is completely empty, whereas Firefox is a difficult-to-understand mess. Pretty easy to see why Firefox users would have more difficulty with bookmarks.