199409 - Bookmarks menu shows no bookmarks when no windows are open

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 192014

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[G Piper]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030325
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030325

First you disabled the Bookmarks menu when you are in the emailer, preventing
users from just opening a bookmark directly to cause a new window to open and
show a desired website all in one move. Then you disabled the Bookmarks menu
from having content unless the emailer was closed or put into the dock. NOW
you've disabled the Bookmarks menu even when the emailer is in the dock!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the "Mail & Newsgroups" section of Mozilla.
2. Minimize the emailer window into the dock.
3. Try to open the Bookmarks menu, only to find it is empty of bookmarks.
4. Open a new Navigator window.
5. Wait for the default site to finish loading.
6. Open the Bookmarks menu and select the bookmark you wish to view, loading the
desired site.
Actual Results:  
See Expected Results...

Expected Results:  
It once worked as simple as this:
1. Open the "Mail & Newsgroups" section of Mozilla.
2. Open the Bookmarks menu and select the bookmark you wish to view, loading the
desired site.


I feel there are at least two choices:

1) Make the darn Bookmarks menu available at all times (maybe optionally) so you
don't have to go through several steps to get a bookmarked site open. Or...

2) Make the Bookmarks menu at least available when no other windows are showing,
so you don't have to open a window, let it load, then choose your desired
bookmark from the Bookmarks menu.

It was so handy to be able to just hit a bookmark to load a window with the site
in it all in one shot. Now, if you are in the emailer, you MUST open a new
Navigator window, wait for it to load the default site, then access the
Bookmarks menu to get your desired site loaded.
If the argument against this is that you plan on separating the apps, I think
that would be a big mistake. one of the ONLY reasons I and many other people use
Mozilla at all is because it has an integrated emailer built-in. The idea of a
"one-stop" app for all your internet needs is a great one! :-) Please don't ruin it.

Comment 1

[Chris Casciano]

I can't confirm that anything has changed recently because I haven't noticed
(probably due to only using the browser)

However, I'm sure this is out there already in the form of Option 2, but all I
can seem to find right now are the doc icon specific bugs like bug 90823 (which
may infact solve this issue but the bugs don't read that way).

Comment 2

[timeless]

hrm, i was thinking of bug 195985 which isn't the same.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 192014 ***