143635 - Bookmarks button on the personal toolbar can be dragged and dropped

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Ben Marsh]

If you click and drag on the bookmarks button on the bookmarks bar it seems to
allow you to drop it somewhere like in the window where html is displayed.  This
triggers navigation to http://bookmarks-button/.  It also acts as if it can be
dragged to a different position in the bookmarks menu that drops down.

Comment 1

[HJ]

Folders on the personal toolbar will not close if you drag over them. Also note
that the button can't be moved on the personal toolbar, at least I can't.

Confirming on Win32 with mozilla build ID: 2002051006 (RC2)

Comment 2

[Mathias Rufer]

Confirming on Mozilla 1.0rc2 2002051006 and Win2k. Bookmarks Button can't be
moved, just wrong drag&drop behavior.
It's ugly that the Bookmarks button behaves like a drag and drop element,
because you can no more use the bookmarks symbol with the mouse button hold.

Comment 3

[Andy Grimm]

Confirming this behavior in Mozilla 1.0 (2002053012) WinNT 4.0.

This is extraordinarily annoying from a UI point-of-view.  It's a common action
to click "bookmarks" on the bar, hold the mouse button down, move to the desired
bookmark and release the mouse button.  This currently results in a drag of the
bookmarks button which is inconsistent with expected browser behavior.

You can of course click "bookmarks" on the bar, then independently click the
bookmark in question, but most people are accustomed to the one-click approach
to pull-down menus.

I don't know if this is a bug or a feature (i.e. if there's some obscure useful
thing you can do with a dragged "bookmarks" button) but IMHO it is not correct
behavior.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Geer]

For me, this makes the Bookmarks button unusable.  I always pull down menus with
a single click; there's no way I can change this deeply-ingrained habit just for
a single menu.  Bookmarks should clearly behave like a menu (i.e. clicking on it
and dragging down should just open the menu and let you select something),
rather than like a link (which could conceivably be dragged somewhere).

Comment 5

[Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)]

bug 143031 comment 71 ...is this fixed (on trunk at least)? wfm linux trunk cvs
2002-07-08, wfWD win2k 2002070804.

Comment 6

[Ben Marsh]

As of Build 200207208 bug seems to be fixed on Win2000.  Does it require further
verification?

Comment 7

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

Ben, if you don't know which bugfix fixed a bug, the bug should be marked
WORKSFORME, not FIXED...

I don't want to reopen this now though, so marking verified fixed

Comment 8

[Pierre Chanial]

fyi, I fixed that in bug 139471 on the trunk.
This bug had nothing to do in this module.