1952018 - Organised bookmarks are displayed randomly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1953992

(Firefox for Android :: Accounts and Sync, defect)

Description

[Martin Packwood]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0

Steps to reproduce:

Login to Firefox account using a desktop version of Firefox. Mange bookmarks and create several folders and several bookmarks in each. Put all bookmarks in a known order. Log in to Firefox on an android device (EG Galaxy A40). Go to bookmarks and notice that desktop bookmarks ordering is not respected.

Actual results:

Bookmarks are not in the same order they were saved in on the desktop computer.

Expected results:

Bookmarks should be in the same order that they were saved in on the desktop computer.

Comment 1

[Vasilica Tamas (Android QA) [:vtamas]]

Hi Martin! Thanks for filing this issue!
Your bookmarks order might be changed due to the new implemented feature on Android which displays the bookmarks (or folders) based on the creation/update time (last created/updated are displayed on top).

Could you please disable this feature following the below steps and let us know if the initial bookmarks order is available?

1. Go to Settings-> About Firefox.
2. Tap 5 times on Firefox logo to enable the debug mode.
3. Go back to the Settings menu.
4. Select Secret Settings.
5. Disable "Enable Compose Bookmarks" option.
6. Restart the app and check the Bookmarks list.

Thanks!

Comment 2

[Martin Packwood]

Hi Vasilica Tamas,

I hope you are well.

I completed the steps you asked on my phone and the bookmarks are now in the order I expected.

Thank you!

Martin.

Comment 3

[Jeff Boek [:boek]]

Thank you for the report! We're adding the ability to change how the bookmarks are sorted with Bug 1953992

Comment 4

[Vasilica Tamas (Android QA) [:vtamas]]

This issue is fixed starting from Firefox 138.