1459550 - It is confusing to me to have bookmarks stored in two places: menu and toolbar. Please add option that the two become the same one!

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 868664

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[costinel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180427210249

Steps to reproduce:

attempt to use the bookmarks system


Actual results:

i am being offered two distinct places to store and use bookmarks: the menu and the toolbar. this is really very confusing: when should i store to menu, and when should i store to toolbar? and why? this is not what I would expect.


Expected results:

a single root tree of all bookmarks, accessible either via menu or via toolbar

Comment 1

[Virtual_ManPL [:Virtual] 🇵🇱 - (please needinfo? me - so I will see your comment/reply/question/etc.)]

It's intended, as users may want to have other bookmarks in Bookmark Toolbar, compared to bookmarks in Bookmark Menu.
About compacting things, there is bug about integrating Other/Unsorted bookmarks into Bookmarks Menu

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

As already mentioned, this is intentional and it allows different bookmarks in different places. For example, the toolbar I'd only ever want a select few bookmarks, the menu can access all of them.

Bug 868664 is about combining menu & toolbar (though not sure if we'll ever do that or not), bug 1382532 is about combining other bookmarks & bookmarks menu.