146160 - Tabbed browsing session cannot be filed under "My Bookmarks"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[manojd]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051006

This is the first time I am playing with tabbed browing. And I finally found a
decent use for it. I'll describe the way I use it, plus a couple of things that
can help improve the experience.

My scenario: I open a new link in a tab when the link is pointing to something
closely related to the document I am already reading. I open interesting links
that are not related to current subject in a new window rather than a new tab.

So sometimes I have a doc open with many tabs. I have two wish items:

1.  I want to "save" or "bookmark" this entire set of tabs so I can get this
state back if I have to break now, & might have to continue on it tomorrow night.

2.  OK - I finally have 10 tabs open in a window. I will eventually read
probably only 3 of them - I opened them because link in original doc sounded
interesting, but after reading the first para I knew it's not for me. And I read
tabs in arbitrary order - not necessarily left to right. After a while, I forget
which tabs are the ones I've already looked at - I don't want to close them yet
for some reason.
So I would like to kind of "mark" a particular tab that I've read it - perhaps
by right-click on tab. Marked tabs could give a visual cue - changed icon or
color or something.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. See description.

Comment 1

[gabriel]

1. Can be done already.

Click on bookmarks | file bookmark
and then check the 'file as group' box.

You even create a new folder to file them in.

Comment 2

[manojd]

Thanks gabriel, but what is there is only a convenient way to bookmark all
currently open tabs in one operation. There is no way to open them "as a group"
later; I can open only one at a time.

Comment 3

[Robert Wall]

Please keep issues to one per bug report.  

1.  As pointed out by Gabriel, it is possible to bookmark a group of tabs. 
Following the instructions in comment #1, will create an entry in your bookmarks
containing all the tab pages open at the time of creating the group.  Clicking
on this entry will open all of those tabs again in a single operation.  

2.  This is a variation of the rfe in bug 133053(unread tabs should be styled
differently (eg bold)).  

Comment 4

[manojd]

Robert:
1.  Agreed on 1 item per report. Sorry.

2.  "Clicking on this entry will open all of those tabs again in a single
operation": It doesn't work this way - at least in Mozilla 1.0 RC2 that I have.
Entire set gets filed as a folder in bookmarks; I can open an individual entry
but not whole page. Pl verify this before disputing again.

3.  I am saying something a little different from "bug 133053" in my original
item #2. Am posting comment on #133053 bug only.

Comment 5

[Christian Eyrich]

manojd is particularly right.
If you save the tab-group right on your personal toolbar or anywhere else in
your bookmarks you can recall all in one step.
But if you put this group in a folder in your personal toolbar (as I do since
I've many groups which would clutter up the toolbar), klick on the folder, and
you'll see no grouped bookmark but another folder with single bookmarks in it.
So you can't open grouped bookmarks from within a folder on your personal toolbar.
Strangely this works with the same grouped bookmarks in a folder using the
bookmarks menu!

I'd call this (case 1 of c0) a real (but trivial) bug, but no RFE.

Comment 6

[manojd]

Aha. Thanks Christian. So it works except when I file in "My Bookmarks" - which
is where I always file my stuff. Just verified it indeed works if I file it on
main toolbar. It indeed is only a bug, no major enhancement needed.

Comment 7

[Christian Eyrich]

> It indeed is only a bug, no major enhancement needed.

Ok, so we should it get assigned to some who's responsible for this component.
Maybe you'd change the "Component", "Severity" and "OS" to it's appropriate
values and also edit the Summary (since I can't to this as normal user and not
being the reporter) to get it more interesting for the bughunters.

Comment 8

[Christian Eyrich]

Manojd, yesterday I recognized, that I can't reproduce this behaviour anymore
with actual builds (>= 20020617). It must have been fixed anywhere in between.
Could you try in on your system?

Comment 9

[manojd]

Christian Eyrich: The bug is gone after I installed Mozilla 1.1 Alpha (Build ID:
2002061104) on my Windows 2000.

I notice a new menu item under Bookmarks - "Bookmark this group of tabs..." -
this is what I used this time. I also tried reproducing using Bookmarks -> File
Bookmark with "Bookmark this group of tabs" checkbox set - bug is gone with this
also.

Comment 10

[gabriel]

Closing as wfm, per reporter's comments.