1718625 - Bookmark entries switch their order randomly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1557853

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Fentanyl Floyd]

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

Steps to reproduce:

Add many (20-40) bookmarks to a folder. Adding new ones with drag&drop.

Actual results:

Adding new ones with drag&drop may place them at random position. Moving bookmarks makes them often jump around to random positions. It's a total mess since several versions. Fix this idiocy.

Expected results:

Working Firefox. This is something unseen in several months. Maybe try less libtard politics and more good code, for a change?

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

[Peter Magyari (Desktop QA)]

Hi Floyd,

I wasn't able to reproduce the issue you've mentioned on Firefox 89.

While moving the bookmarks there is a blue sign on the side/row where the bookmark is going to be placed on button-release.

Could you take a screen-recording of the issue occurring?

Also, please check if these "jumps" also happen in troubleshoot mode. Here's how:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-extensions-themes-to-fix-problems#w_start-firefox-in-troubleshoot-mode

Thanks!

Comment 3

[Fentanyl Floyd]

It happens randomly. About 5% of the time.
Sometimes bookmarks won't move when dragged and dropped in a different position.

It also happens in the Library window, but even less often.
This is what I have to use to fix this absolute mess.

Possible requirements for reproducing this bug:
a) separators added as well
b) the items have repeated names, with just different URLs (same site added multiple times with different #labels in URLs), like:
"1718625 - Bookmark entries switch their order randomly" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1718625
"1718625 - Bookmark entries switch their order randomly" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1718625#c1
"1718625 - Bookmark entries switch their order randomly" https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1718625#c2
...

How can I comfortably use the browser when I have no trust in such elementary operations?!
It's so frustrating and wastes so much time.

Comment 4

[Fentanyl Floyd]

While moving the bookmarks there is a blue sign on the side/row where the bookmark is going to be placed on button-release.
The blue sign is always placed correctly. The bookmark may not.

Comment 5

[Fentanyl Floyd]

One more thing which might be related:
often the number of bookmarks in the menu is greater than what fits in the screen's height, and the scrolling top and bottom elements appear in the menu.

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Do you use Firefox Sync?

Can you also try this:

• Go to Help -> More Troubleshooting Information
• Scroll down until you find the "Places Database" section.
• Click the verify integrity button and wait for that to complete.
• Restart Firefox, and see if your issue is still reproducible.

Comment 7

[Fentanyl Floyd]

Attachment: Places Database integrity check

> One more thing which might be related:
> often the number of bookmarks in the menu is greater than what fits in the screen's height, and the scrolling top and bottom elements appear in the menu.

Update: no, this doesn't matter. Happens also when the menu easily fits in the screen's height.

@Mark Banner
No, I do not use Firefox Sync, I'm not logged in the browser.(In reply to Fentanyl Floyd from comment #5)

Comment 8

[Fentanyl Floyd]

Attachment: Places Database integrity check

> One more thing which might be related:
> often the number of bookmarks in the menu is greater than what fits in the screen's height, and the scrolling top and bottom elements appear in the menu.

Update: no, this doesn't matter. Happens also when the menu easily fits in the screen's height.

@Mark Banner
No, I do not use Firefox Sync, I'm not logged in the browser.(In reply to Fentanyl Floyd from comment #5)

Places Database integrity check:

Comment 9

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Fentanyl, after running the integrity check and restarting, does the issue still reproduce?

Did the computer go to sleep / hibernate at any time when you were running Firefox?

Comment 10

[Fentanyl Floyd]

@Mark Banner

after running the integrity check and restarting, does the issue still reproduce?

It is way better after running the integrity check.
But it is still reproducible like 0.1% of the time.

But when it occurs, running the integrity check instantly (without restart needed) fixes the positions (elements are moved to proper place).

> Task: _refreshUI

Maybe this step of the integrity check does the trick?
Can I execute this manually?

Did the computer go to sleep / hibernate at any time when you were running Firefox?

No, never, it's a PC. Also no unclean Firefox exits any time recently, etc.

Comment 11

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Pretty sure this is a duplicate of bug 1557853 - moving bookmarks into folder/within folder can cause the orders to be messed up, running integrity check fixes it.