1787592 - Firefox bookmark self-linking (infinity loop basically)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1631239

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

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Attachment: Screenshot_20220827_063120.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I moved from a old firefox instance the bookmarks tab to the new one (accidentally). If you click on the new entries it will spawn new items etc.

Actual results:

The result was a new link (basically like a symlink), which lead to a new creation of the same three entries. If you again click on them, they will recreate three items below (infinity?)

Expected results:

Usually firefox booksmark tab should detect if already existing links are existing and not self-recreating them. xD

Not sure how the impact is to I keep it between us for now.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Since this is something you would do to yourself rather than use to attack someone else we don't need to keep it hidden.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

This should have no performance implications, those below the first root level are just shortcuts (queries) and you can just remove the first nested All Bookmarks without any problem.