196162 - bookmark search results in a separate pane in Bookmarks Manager

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 56418

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Baldi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130

first of all what i don't like in current "bookmark find" implementation:
i don't like that the results are opened in a new window, different from the one
for bookmark management. also the results window is always the same size as the
bookmark management one, and i often confuse the two windows. and i cannot know
where the bookmarks found are located in my bookmarks collection (i have lots of
 bookmarks folders and about 5000 bookmarks...) as an example i search for the
word "php" and suppose i get twenty or more results: i cannot know where they're
located! i cannot know if they're in the "open source tools" or "web related" or
something else.

what i suggest (detailed steps)
1) you hit ctrl+b and then ctrl+f
2) you enter the words to be searched and hit enter
3) the bookmarks management is _splitted horizontally_ using a divider
4) in the top area are showed the bookmarks, like before
5) in the bottom area are showed the results from the search
6) when i click on a bookmark in the botton area the top area is scrolled to
show the corresponding bookmark
7) the user can resize the two areas.
8) the user can hide the bottom area, maybe by using a button in the toolbar

this way i can easily locate where the bookmarks from the search are located.
and i don't have two windows, one hiding the other.
and it looks "more professional" :-)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

see: 
bug 166234 (show search results in new window)
bug 56418 (bookmark search results doesn't show where bookmark is)  	
bug 23214 (two-paneled bookmark view)

Is there anything in your enhancement request that isn't solved by these three bugs?

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

This is a duplicate of bug 56418 comment #3

if you disagree, please reopen

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56418 ***

Comment 3

[Daniel Wang]

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