203857 - Duplicate Bookmarks allowed

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 10198

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Eugene Barstow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401

When you bookmark a page - repeat bookmark same page a dupliacte bookmark is greated

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
called a dialog box requesting ok to copy over existing version of bookmark

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

must be difficult to find the correct component for this

Comment 2

[Jason Bassford]

Why is this a bug?  It seems to me that this behaviour is to be expected and,
AFAIK, always been the case.  I should be able to create as many duplicate
bookmarks as I want - shouldn't I?

I would say that, at least, the severity on this should be changed to
"enhancement" as a request to add a dialogue prompting the user to create a
duplicate or ignore the request altogether.  (If it really is a duplicate, why
bother overwriting it with the exact same information?  That seems like a waste
of I/O if nothing is to change.)

Comment 3

[Alfonso Martinez]

I agree with Jason, but previously there was a bug that didn't allow this
behaviour: Bug 51683 "Unable to have 2 differently named bookmarks for the same
url."
Not being able to create two bookmarks with the same URL was a bug, and there's
no reason to put it back.

Comment 4

[Cees T.]

This is a dup of bug 10198.

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10198 ***