Closed Bug 1680337 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Star panel does not remember most recent bookmarks folder in 84 late beta now that browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020 is set to false again.

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Bookmarks & History
Version:
Firefox 84
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: vaindil, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:84.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/84.0

Steps to reproduce:

#1432604 was closed recently, intended to allow the star panel to remember the most recent bookmarks folder when creating a new bookmark. This worked for me for a couple of weeks (I noticed that the behavior had changed and was very happy), but it has since stopped working. I'm using Firefox Developer Edition, 84.0b7.

  1. Click the star icon in the URL bar to create a new bookmark.
  2. Choose any folder other than the default "Other Bookmarks" folder to save it to.
  3. Save the bookmark.
  4. Open any other website that has no bookmark and click the star icon again.

Actual results:

"Other Bookmarks" is the chosen folder, not the folder I chose step 2.

Expected results:

The folder that's selected when I open the new bookmark panel in step 4 should be the one I selected in step 2.

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

Component: Untriaged → Bookmarks & History

Yes, unfortunately this is as expected. We're going to experiment with this functionality to see if people are generally happy with it in 84 release (with an A/B test, so it will be turned on for some users and not others).

If you like this behaviour and want to keep it, you can turn it on yourself in your profile by setting browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020 to true in about:config. It'll then stay true until late beta in the 85 cycle, unless we enable it for everyone by then. You could also use a user.js file to permanently set the pref to true.

But we're not going to make changes for the 84 cycle so this bug as filed is wontfix, unfortunately.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Summary: Star panel does not remember most recent bookmarks folder → Star panel does not remember most recent bookmarks folder in 84 late beta now that browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020 is set to false again.

Understood, as long as I can manually enable it then that's fine with me. Thank you!

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