186583 - Opening a group of bookmarks destroys all opened tabs

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Tabbed Browsing, defect)

Description

[derek fong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021104 Chimera/0.6

Opening a bookmark group will destroy all existing tabs in the current browser
window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open two tabs in Chimera each with different web pages, select Command-D to
bookmark the current page, and check the "Bookmark all tabs" option.
2. Close the current browser window.
3. Open two new tabs with different web sites in each of them.
4. Select the bookmarked group you created in step 1.


Actual Results:  
The two tabs you opened in step 3 are replaced by the bookmarks from step 1.

Expected Results:  
It seems to me that the tabs created by opening the bookmark group should be
added to the tabs currently open in the browser window.  Perhaps a better way to
handle this be to make this a preference.

Comment 1

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Yep, I had seen this as well- osx 10.2.3 and chimera 2002122104

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

-> smfr

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This is by design. Going to a bookmark replaces the content of the current
browser, so why shouldn't going to a tab group replace existing tabs?

If you don't want to replace tabs, context-click on the bookmark and choose
'Open in New Window'.

Comment 4

[derek fong]

I can see the reasoning for the way it's done now, but I don't necessarily agree
with it.  Choosing a bookmark should indeed replace the existing page since it's
a one-to-one relationship, but replacing all existing tabs is more destructive
in the sense that if the user has five tabs open, that user should have a
reasonable expectation that his tabs will remain open.  After all, why should
three bookmarked tabs replace all five of mine that are currently open?  (Using
the single-page bookmark example, only three of my five tabs should be modified,
with the other two remaining open and unmodified.  Since when do bookmarks
actually CLOSE tabs?)  It's pretty ambiguous and would probably be better off as
a preference.  I'll leave this bug as-is, but the way it works now is not really
logical.

Comment 5

[derek fong]

Another suggestion would be a dialog box that pops up the first time a user
clicks a bookmarked tab set in a multi-tabbed window (with a "Do not show again"
checkbox) warning users they'll be losing all of their current tabs if they
continue.  Logic aside, this is more of a usability issue.  Losing tabs is not
trivial to most users, as evidenced by bug 186583.

Comment 6

[derek fong]

Sorry, that's bug 108973.  Looked at the wrong tab.  =)

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v wontfix.

Comment 8

[Prognathous]

Adding Bug 243740 to the depends list ("Provide access to the usability studies
that led to Bug 203960, so that Replace Tabs as default can be re-evaluated").

Prog.