157175 - Cannot bookmark a folder itself - attempting to just creates a whole set of new bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 41539

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[resigned]

1) "file://" type URL's pointing to folders cannot be bookmarked. But they can
be visited.

2) When you try to bookmark the file:// URL, it adds to the bookmarks menu as a
folder-submenu, and expands to show all the items in the folder.

3) You can't actually click on the submenu itself, to go to that file:// URL -
you can only click on one of the (non-folder) items within that sub-menu.

e.g.:

a)  go to "file:///"
b) bookmark it using "add to bookmarks" from the bookmark menu
c) OR using "file bookmarks", and just accept the defaults
d) click on the menu, and try selecting "file:///" - no chance.
e) allow the "file:///" submenu to fly out - notice it has bookmarked all the
subfolders and files from your root.

Seems to me that the bookmarks subsystem is re-using the file:// syntax as a
convenient way of storing the path to bookmark files and folders. This is a bad
move, since it prevents bookmarking of some "file://" style URLs.

If I'm completely wrong, or there's some workaround for this, please let me know
(only been using Mozilla for a few months).

Comment 1

[Patrick Xia]

Confirming bug [Mozilla-2002071008 on Windows XP].

Comment 2

[Pierre Chanial]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41539 ***