1691893 - Firefox 78esr Organize Bookmarks Drag-n-Drop Folders Does Not Work

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[David Rankin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 78.6.1 openSUSE Linux. Opening organize bookmarks and attempting to organize folders, I attempted to move a folder shown in files-pane (right) to a new location in the folders-pane (left). Drag-n-drop did not work. No change in cursor on left-click and hold to drag was observed and the folder wasn't moved. I had to resort to archaic cut-and-paste.

Actual results:

Drag-n-drop of folders does not work in FF 78.6.1esr on Linux. Drag-n-drop of FILES does work as expected. Judging by the interface, there have been changes (Gtk+3 or 4 now) looking changes. In the past all drag-n-drop of files or folders worked. But now it does not.

Expected results:

Drag-n-drop of folders from the files-pane to a new location in the folders-pane should have worked as it always has, at least since the end of Firefox 2 (or 3) I can't recall when drag-n-drop was enabled. The drag-n-drop of FILES works, but for FOLDERS it is broken. I never realized how distasteful cut & paste had become, but in the Organize Bookmarks file-explorer interface, drag-n-drop should work for folders.

Comment 1

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

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi David!
I was not able to reproduce this issue on latest Nightly Version 88.0a1-Build ID 20210308094833-User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0 either on Firefox Version 78.8.0esr-Build ID 20210217034806-User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0 on Ubuntu 20.04.
Please, could you try to reproduce it on latest Nightly and tell us your input? You can download it from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/
Thanks

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Could you please run a Database Integrity check from the about:support page, in the Places Database section of it, then restart and try again?

Comment 4

[Marcela (Please NI request to Brindusa Tot)]

Hi,
I'm marking this as Resolved-Incomplete due to lack of response. If the issue is still reproducible with the latest Firefox version, feel free to reopen the bug with more information.
Thanks,