148913 - Imported IE favorites broken

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 21263

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[nomoreregistrations]

Imported IE favorites work correctly in Mozilla 0.9.8.
They were broken in Mozilla 0.9.9,
and are still broken in Mozilla 1.0 rc3.

When a new profile is created in Mozilla 0.9.8,
bookmarks.html contains the following line:
<DT><A HREF="file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/User/Favorites/">Imported IE
Favorites</A>

Using this link, Mozilla 0.9.8 dynamically references IE favorites located in
that folder. Starting with 0.9.9, Mozilla no longer adds this line to
bookmarks.html, but instead statically imports IE favorites from that location,
with multiple problems along the way:

1. Favorites are no longer sorted correctly (should retain order from IE).
2. Special characters are not decoded (space is left as %20). (Fixed later, see
bug#130079).
3. Changes to IE favorites folder are no longer reflected in Mozilla, since IE
favorites are statically imported into Mozilla.

There are currently multiple bugs open trying to deal with various symptoms of
this problem. Instead, we should revert back to using dynamic reference to IE
favorites folder the way 0.9.8 does.

Comment 1

[Pierre Chanial]

Please, one issue per bug report.
You can still have the old behaviour via the hidden prefs.
Have a look in bugzilla.
Duping the first issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21263 ***