1717294 - Scroll to the selected bookmark folder when clicking on folder expander button next to the folder dropdown

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Joachim Herb]

Attachment: Expected bahavior: show selected folder in bookmark folder tree

Current bahavior:

If the bookmark dialog is opened by CTRL+d (at least in German localization) the last used folder is already chosen. But if I want to select a different folder (which is not included in the 7 last used folders) and click the button right to the selected folder the bookmark tree is shown at the top.

Suggested behavior:

Show already selected folder in the tree. See attached screen shot.

Reason:
I regularily store bookmarks sorted by topic and the folders are all subfolders of one specific folder in the bookmark tree. If the topic is not part of the last 7 selected subfolders, I always have to search for it/scroll to it in the bookmark tree.

Comment 1

[Alin Ilea, Desktop Test Engineering]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Hi,

Thank you for opening this enhancement. I will set this as New for visibility and waiting for the developers opinion about it.

Thanks for your input.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Could you please clarify the request?
I tried picking a folder from the preselected ones, and then clicking the button on the right, and the folder is selected in the picker, as in your screenshot.
Is your request to show the folders tree expanded by default?

Comment 3

[Joachim Herb]

I just tested it with Firefox 90.0b10 in safe mode, so all addons disabled. If I add a bookmark for the current page, then press the "editBMPanel_foldersExpander" button, the top of the bookmark tree is shown.

So in the screenshot above, this would mean, that the bookmarks are scrolled to the top

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Ok, yes it makes sense to scroll to the selected folder.

Comment 5

[Joachim Herb]

Works in Firefox 100.0beta4