1698286 - Menu Bar not alphabetically sorting Bug ID:211023 not working

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 405108

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Dan G]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:86.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/86.0

Steps to reproduce:

Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon, vs. 4.6.7. Firefox 86-64 bit. When one selects "save bookmarks" , the "show all bookmarks", then "Bookmarks Toolbar", "Views", "Sort", Z-A sort, it will sort on that Library screen, but not on the main menu.

Actual results:

Sort doesn't occur.

Expected results:

Sort should occur. Workaround: clear Bookmarks Toolbar. Do the sort in another folder, and copy back to the Bookmarks Toolbar folder. It is then sorted correctly.

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

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

While I'm pretty sure that this behavior is intended, this could at least be treated as an enhancement, if not a defect.

I can confirm, the behavior that the reporter has described on all platforms and I would like to allow the dev team to decide what to do with this report further.

Thank you for the report!

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

The Library window sorting is volatile, it does not persist. To permanently sort contents of a folder (included the bookmarks toolbar), you should right click on it and choose Sort By Name.