Closed Bug 139136 Opened 23 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Set as Personal Toolbar Folder does nothing

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Milestone:
mozilla1.4beta

People

(Reporter: sunsear, Assigned: janv)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [adt3]) 

I made some errors in my bookmarks lately, so I deleted them all and imported
them from a bookmark file I keep. First off, my Personal Toolbar Folder wasn't
immediately set, but I read another bug about that already. I thought I'd fix it
by  picking Set as Personal Toolbar Folder from the View menu in Manage
Bookmarks. No matter what I try, I just can't seem to get it to work. I'm using
RC1 on Windows XP.
I have observed this bug under Linux since at least version 0.9.8. The OS field
should be changed to "all" since this seems to be an OS-independant problem.
This bug is extremely annoying as it makes it impossible to have a non-empty
personal
toolbar once you delete the one that Mozilla originally creates for you. Thus I
have been without a personal toolbar for many months now.

A little additional information: 
The only folder I imported from my bookmarks was a Personal Folder Toolbar. This
was at that time the only folder that I had in my bookmarks. Adding a new
directory and marking that directory as PFT worked fine. After that I could also
switch the PFT back to the folder I imported. 
same problem here, tested with
Linux, SuSE 8.0, mozilla 1.0 RC2
Windows 2000, SP2, mozilla 1.0 RC2 build 2002051406

as Martin pointed out, after deleting all bookmarks, then importing bookmarks, 
you cant set the Personal Toolbar Folder as PTF. you have to set first a 
different folder as PTF, after doing that its possible to set PTF as PTF 
I have something remarked with 1.0rc3, which is similar to this.

The problem is when you have the bookmarks sidebar open, and once clicken on the
"Personal Toolbar" there, then you go to the real Personal Toolbar, doing a
right click on a bookmark there and hit delete. The focus is not passed to the
Bookmark on the personal toolbar instead you just delete only the entries in the
Sidebar Bookmarks tab, unforunatley I remarked this, too late, I was just
wondering why the bookmars on the "Personal Toolbar" don't get deleted. When I
saw that I was actually deleting in the sidebar Bookmarks tab only it was too
late, and I had deleted the Personal Toolbar Folder already. Now, I think it
should be possible to get it back just by drag & drop a site onto the Personal
Toolbar, this somehow worked in Netscape4 and I bet as well in Mozilla for some
time. But now it doesn't.

This should be fixed in 1.0, because I always wondered when I sat in front of
other people's Computers that there was no Personal Toolbar and dragging a site
on the personal toolbar didn't work. Now, I understand why this happened. So,
I'm of the opinion that this does not occur infrequently, and that a "Newbie"
does not know that he/she has to set a new Personal Toolbar first.
*** Sorry for the bad english today, it was late yesterday when I came home ***
Resolution: FIXED by tomorrow
It has just appeared for me too.

I actually use Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020610
Debian/1.0.0-1.  I renamed ~/.mozilla (used in previous mozilla installations)
in ~/.mozilla-pre1.0, installed mozilla 1.0 and started it.  I imported my old
mozilla bookmarks, I removed the two bookmarks from the default PTD (I do not
remember if I removed the PDF too).  After that, setting a new (imported) folder
as PTF did not work.  I restarted mozilla: it does not work either.  Finally, I
set another folder as PTF and it worked.  After that, I have finally set my PDF
to the folder I have tried before, and it worked.
I occasionally deleted my personal toolbar folder yesterday. So I had to try
getting it back and I now found sure steps to set personal toolbar folder and I
(think I) know when It's not woking. (On Moz. 1.0.0 / 1.1a / Windows)

Steps I did:
* Go to Bookmark Manager.
* Create a new folder ("Personal Toolbar Folder")
* View -> Set as....
=> Won't work!

But:
* Go to BM
* Create a Toolbar folder
* Create a Subfolder of this
* Select the Subfolder, View -> Set as "Personal tool..."
* Select the parent (Toolbar) folder
* View -> Set as...
=> It will work!

You have to set the atribute to a subfolder an then you can set the parent
folder of this as Toolbar folder. This worked in Moz. 1.0 and 1.1a reproducable.
I occasionally deleted my personal toolbar folder yesterday. So I had to try
getting it back and I now found sure steps to set personal toolbar folder and I
(think I) know when It's not woking. (On Moz. 1.0.0 / 1.1a / Windows)

Steps I did:
* Go to Bookmark Manager.
* Create a new folder ("Personal Toolbar Folder")
* View -> Set as....
=> Won't work!

But:
* Go to BM
* Create a Toolbar folder
* Create a Subfolder of this
* Select the Subfolder, View -> Set as "Personal tool..."
* Select the parent (Toolbar) folder
* View -> Set as...
=> It will work!

You have to set the atribute to a subfolder an then you can set the parent
folder of this as Toolbar folder. This worked in Moz. 1.0 and 1.1a reproducable.
Sorry for duplicate posting, Mozilla Wallet set my Comment field again when I
was trying to add my Cc. :-(
Does this still happen?
For me it works now :-)
still reproducible with:
Linux, SuSE 8.0, mozilla 1.0.1 RC1
Windows 2000, SP3, mozilla 1.0.1 RC1 
Windows 2000, SP3, mozilla 1.1 beta 
Upgrading to the 8/26 build (win2k) removed my personal toolbar. Even worse, the
only remaining item on the bar (bookmarks) had no bookmarks listed!. I had to
manage the bookmarks and close that before the bookmarks reappeared. (this is
required every time mozilla is started). But tip #7 did restore my personal
toolbar folder.
Keywords: mozilla1.2, regression
Dunno if this is 100% the correct bug, but when I delete my Personal Toolbar,
and then select another folder for this, it does not work.
Put the biggest problem, is that I now can not drag any links to the Personal
Toolbar.

If this is the correct bug for this problem the severity should be raised.
Keywords: nsbeta1
Looking at my Explanation on #7 I think you have exactly the same problem. If my
solution does not work for you, you should tell more about your prob.
*** Bug 170161 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
OS: Windows 2000 → All
Hardware: PC → All
setting OS and platform to all based on duplicate
I experienced similar problems after first importing my old bookmarks and then
deleting the default "Personal toolbar folder".

Using the edit->"Set as Personal toolbar folder" on some other folder and
afterwards using it to the correct (the old one) "Personal toolbar folder"
worked for me.
Continues to exist with Mozilla 1.2b on Windows XP.
Since I often copy my updated work bookmark file from work and import it into my
home PC, I've noticed this for a long time.  

I use the work around, of temporarily selecting another folder as personal
toolbar folder, then going back and setting the Personal Toolbar Folder as the
personal toolbar folder.

Any idea when this will be fixed?
Severity: normal → major
nsbeta1+/adt3 per the nav triage team.
Keywords: nsbeta1 → nsbeta1+
Whiteboard: [adt3]
Keywords: mozilla1.2 → mozilla1.3
Over to Jan.
Assignee: ben → varga
Continues to occur with:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

But the tip in comment #7 does work around the problem.
Priority: -- → P3
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.4beta
This problem if fixed for me in 1.3 final / WinXP.

I can succesfully do the following things:

1) delete "Personal Toolbar Folder" from within BM
==> at this point the folder is deleted but the changes aren't updated to the
toolbar!

2) assign folder "Mozilla" as new PTF with "View|Set as personal toolbar folder"
==> at this point the toolbar gets updated but not all the time properly.
sometimes the contents of the folder Mozilla gets ADDED to the items which were
deleted but still present in the folder, but that sort of thing goes away with a
browser restart

3) then create folder "PTF" and make it the active PTF with the BM. 
This means that the requiremend of the workaround of bug #88711 , which involved
the requirement that the folder be named "Personal Toolbar Folder"  is no longer
true.

So WORKSFORME except XUL update bugs when switching PTF assignment.
This should be fixed.
Chris, could you verify ?
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
QA Contact: claudius → petersen
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Yes, this has been fixed on both the trunk and branch (06/12) win32 and macho builds
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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