177213 - Cannot bookmark local directories, creates folder instead.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Environment : trunc, Build ID: 2002102704, Win32-talkback.zip, Win-ME 

Although bug 41539 has been closed with RESOLVED/FIXED, problem still occurs for
bookmark of local directory in MS Windows environment.
I could not open bookmark of local directory from (1) Menu/Bookmarks, (2)
Personal Toolbar/Bookmarks.
URI becomes file:///D:/dir-1/dir-2/ or file:///D|/dir-1/dir-2/ usually in
Windows world.

Note:
I could open it through context menu when Personal Toolbar item, Sidebar
bookmark and BookmarkManager.
 ( "Open in new tab" is NOT available in context menu of Sidebar/Bookmarks )
 ( and BookmarkManager. But this is a different problem.)

I guess such treatment of a bookmark of local directory as a bookmark folder is
mainly for IE Favarites.
Expansion of user created normal bookmarks should be deactivated.

If many users believes that a bookmark of local directory will be expaned as a
bookmark folder, user option of a bookmark, normal bookmark mode or IE Favarite
mode, may be a good solution.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Reporter, if you believe bug 41439 was not fixed, please add your comments to
that bug, don't open a new one for the same issue.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 41539 ***

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Unmorphing 41539 (can't bookmark FTP directories) and reopening this one (can't
bookmark local directories).

Comment 3

[Jan D.]

this is not MS only.  It is seen on both Mac OS X and GNU/Linux.

Comment 4

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

Changed OS to "All".

Comment 5

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

I found a workaround of this problem.
With 2002122908-trunc/Win-Me, when I changed URI field of bookmark property to
OS specific file-path-name format suchs as "D:\", it worked as expected.
"D:\" was treated as an usual bookmark.

This problem occurs only when bookmark property has valid URI format such as
file:///d:/, which is created by bookmark-menu.

Comment 6

[Jan D.]

That workaround does not work in MacOSX/Linux.  Mozilla prepends a http://
before any path.  May work on DOS based systems because they have a : in the path.

Comment 7

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 190896 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

With Mozilla for OS/2, file:///d|/directory/ does nothing.
No directory or file is listed.
I guess that Mozilla for OS/2 does not have local directory expantion function,
because no one want "IE Favarite" support OS/2.

Comment 9

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 196220 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Chris Lyon]

Confirming due to dupes

Comment 11

[Oliver Kluge]

Contrary to comment #8 my Mozilla 1.3b for OS/2 treats URIs for files
(file:///D:/) in bookmark like bookmark folders. If they reside on the personal
bookmark bar, they open a drop down menu. If they are in the bookmarks file,
they are treated as bookmark folders.

The workaround from #5 works on OS/2, although OS/2 is not DOS based, but knows
drive letters. But still, a valid URI for a directory is preferrable over OS
specific notation.

And, as I wrote in bug 196220, a right-click on a bookmark on the personal
bookmark bar show inconsistency:
"Open" creates a drop down list with all items in the directory
"Open in New Window" opens a new window containing the directory as expected
"Open in New Tab" opens a new tab containing the directory as expected.

Comment 12

[Jan Varga [:janv]]

-> me

Comment 13

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 185975 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Bartosz Wucke]

What's worse, on Linux (confirm others?) context menu appears only for top-level
items (like folders) in Personal Toolbar and the workaround won't work for
submenu items - so I can't open a folder in a submenu.

Additionally, since sorting subfolders works only in windowed view and bookmark
subfolders remain unsorted, it's pure hell to look through the context menu with
some 400 subfolders in random order, like when you have bookmarked
/usr/share/doc! In this case, "windowed view" is the only way to go.

Suggested solutions: Either be able to click (or release, depending on method of
opening) LMB on a IE-folder style menu item to open it, or add "open this
folder" to top of the content list (similar to "file here" from MailNews
copy/move context menu for folders with subfolders in them)

Comment 15

[Hideo Oshima]

I can open the direcotry on Bookmarks.
Is this fixed?
2003032622/Linux trunk build.

Comment 16

[Bartosz Wucke]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030327
Confirming WFM.

This replaces the "subfolder" solution though - much better than it was but not
ideal (the user should have a choice between folder-style and bookmark-style,
best if both provided at the same time)

Comment 17

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

worksforme with windows Mozilla 2004020308