1603903 - Importing Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1485286

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Doc]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:71.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/71.0

Steps to reproduce:

I attempting to import my bookmarks from Chrome. A recent update is causing far too many problems for me to deal with as I do not have that much time to report problems to be ignored.

Actual results:

I imported my bookmarks from Chrome. It says successful . I open bookmarks to take a look verify ALL of my bookmarks were imported. Seemed to quick to completely import, so I go have a look. I look at the structure and I notice "Mobile Bookmarks" folder, ok, so far so good. I then click on the mobile bookmarks folder to find all my mobile bookmarks are EMPTY?

Expected results:

I expected my entire bookmark collection from my previous browser to be FULLY imported not just a fraction of them. My mobile bookmarks are from all my mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc.) It is very discouraging to find out just how lazy developers are that you cannot even import someones ENTIRE bookmark section and only selective of the imports. Now I read I have to be careful as some bookmarks may be BROKEN. I have FAR too many to verify, there should be some verification tool to set ADVANCED users (like me) who now need to be at ease. I am very uncomfortable with this move from Chrome to Firefox as I did the opposite some 16 - 18 years ago when I got tired of struggling to read web pages that did not render properly. (Last I check this problem still exited since 12.x).

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

Bugbug thinks this bug should belong to this component, but please revert this change in case of error.

Comment 2

[Andre Klapper]

Hi and thanks for reporting this. Which exact version of Chrome is this about?
Please also take a look at https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ if you would like to be active here. Developers here do not add bugs intentionally, which is what you imply. Especially not when another third-party software might have changed something in its setup how they store bookmarks.

Comment 3

[Doc]

Excuse me, I never "implied" the developers added bugs to Firefox, it is typically an accident but I implied I moved from the now defunct Chrome browser which in the latest update caused me too many problems to deal with in CHROME to report and go unheard / unresolved.

Chrome Version is 79.0.3945.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)

If there is anything else you need, please feel free to reach out.

Best Regards,
Doc

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

From comment #0:

It is very discouraging to find out just how lazy developers are that you cannot even import someones ENTIRE bookmark section and only selective of the imports.

(In reply to Doc from comment #3)

Excuse me, I never "implied" the developers added bugs to Firefox, it is typically an accident but I implied I moved from the now defunct Chrome browser which in the latest update caused me too many problems to deal with in CHROME to report and go unheard / unresolved.

You might not have directly implied adding bugs, but calling developers lazy is fairly close to that. Regardless of which product you're talking about, criticising developers or other people/groups is not acceptable. Please read the etiquette before commenting further.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

I've just found/remembered this is a duplicate of bug 1485286 - I guess Chrome probably didn't have mobile bookmarks originally, and then added it, and unfortunately we haven't caught up yet.

As a workaround, you should be able to export bookmarks via Chrome's UI as html, then import them by going to Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks, then import bookmarks from html from the right-hand button on that window that pops up. You'll probably need to re-organise them, but it will at least get them across.

Comment 6

[Doc]

Let me state for the record. These personal attacks about " etiquette" and "guidelines" have me not only offended but I find it pretty insulting too. So, this is going to be my last comment and reply to this "bug." You do not know my profession, who I am and what I do and more importantly where I come from. I have been in this business for 30 years. I have tons of real-world experience, and plenty of textbook education as well as professional training. So you can't tell sarcasm yet you are going to sit here a preach to me about etiquette?? So here is your lesson in professionalism.

Look, I am doing YOU a favor, I am not doing myself any good being here volunteering my time with this being preached to about YOUR rules and guidelines, I have tons of better things I can be doing, that I would rather be doing, than listening to some "hot head" throw text at you have no clue about. I am a direct and blunt person who speaks what he thinks, no filter, no fluff, NO BULL and if you are offended, that is your problem. I am here to attempt to bring a bug into light to get resolved, not preached to or be told to read your guidelines before I further comment, perhaps you need to take a class in professionalism yourself? ;-) In my years of experiance, I have learned a lot of people develop in windows and have inconsistency programming with cross-platform because Windows and Linux or MacOS see ThIs differently than THIS. Hence my comment about "Lazy Developers." It should be "Lazy Coding" techniques. That is my fault using bad choice of words. But the damage is done.

As for exporting / importing. Google Chrome did export them, but they did not put a proper label on it in the HTML file, it just bunched together at the end of the file without proper headings. I attempted to export and import and it was even worse. I guess I will be using Firefox in an extreme minimal capacity. In fact, playing with this yesterday "Mobile Bookmarks" disappeared from my list, now never to be put back as a folder cannot be created by the user? (restrictions). Can't create a folder / container to place mobile bookmarks into. I had to copy and paste my bookmarks manually from Chrome in to Firefox as now this is turning into a complete mess.

This is all I am going to report here in to this matter because if this a "duplicate bug" then it is apparent this is NOT solved but you have more relevant information to go on. I just wish I could contribute more to this, but some people take their "work" TOO SERIOUSLY and just need to clam down and STOP PREACHING and start contributing, I hope you are happy!

Thank you and good luck!

Comment 7

[Andre Klapper]

[OT] Doc: Thanks for "doing us a favor" by reporting issues - this is always welcome. However, the "us" that you wrote also includes you yourself. I am also "volunteering my time" here. I expect humans to respectfully communicate, and that's possible by not using "sarcasm" in our very first interaction. Again, thanks for your understanding.