167188 - bookmark group (tab set) behavior inconsistent

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

tested using 2002.09.06.05. the replacement behavior of bookmark groups is
consistent; test cases below.

pre-existing condition: create a bookmark group (bmg, tab set) with two tabs,
and save it to the toolbar (for easy access). for example, i had these two urls
in a bmg:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=Chimera

case a
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if you have a window that has 1 or 2 tabs in it, clicking the bmg link in the
toolbar will *replace* the content with the bmg.

case b
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if you have a window that has 3 or more tabs in it, clicking the bmg link will
only replace the content in the *first two* tabs.

(b) feel inconsistent: if you're going to always replace tabs when accessing a
bookmark group, then it should replace *all* of the tabs (no matter the number)
with the bookmark group.

another alternative is to follow the mozilla branch (netscape 7.0rtm) model, to
make bmg always *additive*, never replacing the present tabs in a window.

marlon / lori, what were the overall findings in the netscape usability study
regarding how bookmark groups should behave?

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Not major.

Comment 2

[Paul Baker]

Okay this is driving me insane since I have been using tab-group bookmarks since
it was a hidden feature in Mozilla. Please before I go insane, make tabbed
bookmarks open all new tabs instead of replacing existing tabs.

Comment 3

[Stephane Moureau]

*** Bug 188013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Stephane Moureau]

See bug 188013 comment 1 and 2.

Comment 5

[Hiro]

If bookmark group is chosen where tab of the maximum number is opened, only the
first page registered into bookmark group can be displayed.
(That is, the page registered into bookmark group all cannot be displayed.)

This is very bad :-(

Comment 6

[Hiro]

(In reply to comment #5)
oops,
It checked by build of the following.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040306
Camino/0.7+

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This has been fixed for a while.