185909 - Bookmark groups "randomly" break (on startup?) and turn into bookmark directories

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 144238

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[darekun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

Every bookmark group I've created broke(turned into a bookmark directory,
keeping its contents) after a few days, I think always when I started Mozilla,
and always within a week of creating the bookmark group.

Repeatedly running Mozilla in a single boot does not provoke the bug; I hadn't
tested repeatedly rebooting and running Mozilla, since I'm running Windows. I
also hadn't tested not running it for a few days.

Four times this happened while I had multiple bookmark groups(I always keep them
in bookmarks root), and both groups broke at once; two of those times, there
were "indexing" issues where dragging a bookmark would move another bookmark to
another location(as if the first group and its children were skipped when using
indices). Restarting Mozilla didn't fix this, but deleting both former
groups(after copying out their contents) did.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bookmark group. You may need to leave it in bookmarks root(which is
default). You may need a large number of bookmarks in dirs above it.
2. Run Mozilla at least once a day for a few days.
3. Each time you run Mozilla, open the bookmarks menu.
Actual Results:  
The bookmark group had turned into a bookmark directory. It had the directory
icon, it opened to show its contents, and clicking on it did nothing. In the
Bookmark Manager, it similarly behaved as a bookmark directory.

Expected Results:  
The bookmark group should've stayed a group. (Alternately, bookmark directories
should have a "Open All These Bookmarks" item on their context menu, which will
open them as a group in a new window, ignoring subdirs.)

Mozilla 1.21, default theme(since there's no Netscape 3-esque theme),
Win98SE(installed almost a year ago, but rebooted twice daily).

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 144238 (by way of dup bug 180467)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144238 ***