175294 - Nameless Bookmarks Toolbar Subfolder breaks "Add Bookmark"... "Create In" dropdown list

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Harford]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017 Phoenix/0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021017 Phoenix/0.3

When the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder contains only a nameless folder, one cannot
create bookmarks in any folders below the BTF.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Bookmark Manager.
2. Delete all bookmarks.
3. Delete all bookmark folders except for the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.
4. Create a single folder inside the BTF. Give it no name.
5. Create another folder, and name it, say, "foo".
6. Move this folder below (not inside) the BTF.
7. Return to browser and drive it to some page you like.
8. Bookmarks > Add to Bookmarks...
Actual Results:  
I couldn't put the bookmark in "foo". It doesn't show up on the "Create in:" list.

Expected Results:  
"foo" should have been included on the "Create in:" list.

I keep a blank folder in my BTF so as not to take up room in the toolbar, so
this really has actually been a problem for me. Work-around: Move BTF to the
bottom of the Bookmark menu.

Comment 1

[Jonathan Harford]

Attachment: Picture of the problem

...worth 1000 words...

Comment 2

[Neil Cronin]

confirmed.  

note: step 2 and 3 are not needed.

Comment 3

[K.R. Foley]

Actually it doesn't matter where the nameless folder is in the bookmark list. If
there is a nameless folder anywhere in the list, all folders below the nameless
folder are invisible when adding a bookmark.

Comment 4

[Erik]

*** Bug 206534 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Erik]

*** Bug 207994 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

I think an acceptable way to fix this would be to require names for folders.

Comment 7

[Ed Hume]

I suppose requiring bookmarks to have a name is an OK workaround. After all,
even a period or a space is enough to avoid the problem (I only discovered this
for myself when I was trying to make a bookmark folder as small as possible so
it would fit on the Bookmarks Toolbar). There are other issues I'd far rather
devs work on.

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 9

[Pierre Chanial]

that's fixed with the new UI

Comment 10

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change