196220 - Cannot bookmark a directory

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 177213

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Oliver Kluge]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030211

Bookmarking a local directory like file:///F:/data/ is impossible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Surf to a directory like F:\data
2.Drag a bookmark onto the personal bookmar bar
3.Click on the created bookmark

Actual Results:  
The bookmark on the personal bookmarks opens a drop down menu containing all
files in the directory.

Expected Results:  
Open the (correct!) URI specified in the bookmark in the browser window.

This may by some kind of feature, and I understand it may be useful to some
people to use this to structure bookmark files.

But on the other hand, file:///F:/data/ is a valid URI that should be accessible
by bookmark. If you do this with a directory that contains a huge quantity of
files and folders, you may end up with 100% CPU load a screen full of drop down
menus.

Also, the behaviour of the three "open" dialogs when right-clicking is inconsistent.
1) Open opens the drop down menu
2) Open in New Window creates a new window containing the directory
3) Open in New Tab creates a new tab that contains the directory.

This inconsistency IMHO needs fixing, and if the drop down menus are some kind
of feature, maybe it should get a new name and a proper place in Manage
Bookmarks. Creating a bookmark with an URI should open that URI.

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 177213 ***