Closed
Bug 148539
Opened 22 years ago
Closed 12 years ago
History "Last Visited" Sorts in Alphanumeric order, not by date
Categories
(Core Graveyard :: History: Global, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: corydodt, Unassigned)
References
Details
(Whiteboard: [2012 Fall Equinox])
Attachments
(2 files)
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 BuildID: 2002052306 This is a subtle problem with the Last Visited column in the history sidebar. If you click on this column to sort by last visited (I think it is the default anyway), the order the folders appear in is by the alphabetic name of the folder. For example, descending sort goes "Yesterday, Today, Older than 6 days, 6 days, 5 days, 4 days..." because the folders start with Y, T, O, 6, 5, 4, ... In an alphanumeric sort this is what you'd expect, but they should be sorted by date, not by name. See below for what I think is the correct sort order. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. View->Show->Sidebar (or F9) if sidebar is not visible. 2. Under Tabs, make sure History is checked. 3. Pick the History tab in the sidebar. 4. Click the Last Visited column. Actual Results: Sorts folders into: Yesterday, Today, Older than 6 days, 5 days ago, 4 days ago, 3 days ago, 2 days ago. Expected Results: Sort folders into: Today, Yesterday, 2 days ago, 3 days ago, 4 days ago, 5 days ago, 6 days ago, Older than 6 days. This bug could be fixed easily by changing what the folders are named. 0 days ago, 1 day ago, 2 days ago [ . . . ] 7 or more days ago. Then you don't have to change how the sorting works, because alphanumeric sort and date sort will do the same thing. Better still, make them sort by date. Up to you.
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Assignee: sgehani → blaker
Component: Sidebar → History: Global
QA Contact: sujay → claudius
Comment 2•22 years ago
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History "list sorting" makes no sense: If you click on the "title" tab, then you'll get the foldes as follows: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 days ago; Older than 6 days, Today, Yesterday. Or the other way round, of course. If you click a third time (so the "sorting" arrow is no longer visible on the column heading), then you get: 2 days ago Today Older than 6 days 6 days ago 5, 4, 5 days ago Yesterday!! (See attachment)
Comment 3•22 years ago
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When choosing to view the "last visited" column on the history pane (sidebar), the sorting rules have to be odd indeed: We have the "date" foldes (yesterday, today, older than 6 days, 6 , 5, 4, 3, 2 days ago). Then we have the "site" subfolders, that are sorted god-knows-how, and then the different pages on the site, that _are_ sorted by date visited. I don't know what's the logic, if any, but I think that if click on the "last visited", I want to have _all_ the pages sorted by the time of my last visit, no "separate by days" and "by sites".... In _any_ case, it _could_ be argued in favour of separating the pages "by days" (as in "yesterday, 2 days ago," etc) but that'd be all. And, of course, to have those folders properly sorted.
Dupe of bug 120983?
This may be the cause of similar odd behavior in Phoenix: Opening the history sidebar (control+H) shows recently visited links in a strange order that certainly isn't by last visited date, although the View selector clearly indicates "By Last Visited". Clicking on the same View selection again rearranges the links into the expected order. (Phoenix 0.5, Win32.)
Cannot confirm this bug is still happening in Moz 1.2.1. I followed my own instructions to produce the results, and I now get [Today, Yesterday, 2 days, 3 days, 4 days, 5 days, 6 days, Older] which is the expected sort.
Comment 8•21 years ago
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sorry, reopening...
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Updated•21 years ago
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Comment 9•21 years ago
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*** Bug 158962 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 10•21 years ago
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I can confirm that this bug persists in Mozilla 1.3 for Mac OS X. My History sidebar is currently sorted this way: 3 Yesterday 2 Today 4 5 Older Clicking to re-sort results in 2, 3, 4, 5, Older, Today, Yesterday. Clicking again results in: Yesterday, Today, Older, 5, 4, 3, 2 Another click results in 5, Today, Older, Yesterday, 4, 3, 2
Comment 11•19 years ago
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*** Bug 291756 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: firefox → nobody
Severity: minor → normal
OS: Windows 2000 → All
QA Contact: claudius → history.global
Comment 12•15 years ago
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works for me
Comment 13•12 years ago
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Checked on current trunk, sort order doesn't affect history folders, is this still actual? User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15a1 Build identifier: 20120918003007
Whiteboard: [2012 Fall Equinox][CLOSEME 2012-11-01 WFM]
Comment 14•12 years ago
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Resolved per whiteboard
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago → 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Whiteboard: [2012 Fall Equinox][CLOSEME 2012-11-01 WFM] → [2012 Fall Equinox]
Updated•6 years ago
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Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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