1920461 - Bookmarks always lists folders first

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1902050

(Fenix :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:130.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/130.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open Bookmarks and navigate to a folder which contains both websites and folders (eg bookmark bar)

Actual results:

All folders are listed first, then individual websites after

Expected results:

Folders and websites should be displayed in the order they were saved/re-ordered last. If you view on Firefox desktop or Firefox iOS, it correctly orders them like this, meaning in my case that folders and websites are mixed together.

Note: whilst folders are incorrectly shown first, the order within folders is correct, as is the order within individual website bookmarks. So I think the ordering is likely saved/loaded correctly by Fenix, but it's choosing to display them slightly differently.

Comment 1

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

Attachment: Android.webp

Bookmark order on Android: all folders are listed first, then individual sites

Comment 2

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

Attachment: iOS.webp

iOS displays does not display all bookmarks first, instead it displays them how I've ordered them (either on desktop Firefox or iOS Firefox, Android Firefox does not currently support re-ordering

Comment 3

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

I've just noticed that desktop Firefox does a similar thing in the Library view, showing individual bookmarks before folders. I can create another issue if preferred but thought I'd mention it here in case it's related to the same problem.

Comment 4

[James Heppell [:FormularSumo]]

Ah no it turns out I was just misreading it sorry, it does display them in the correct order (same as bookmark toolbar or iOS) in the Library view which is good, just seems to be Android that's different.

Comment 5

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Bookmarks are "ordered" manually by the user, so they are never "folder first" unless that's how they were organized (often via drag/drop on desktop etc). So all browsers should be identical, meaning if Fenix is not, it's a bug there.

Comment 6

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

Will be fixed in 133 with the new bookmarks evolution work