208182 - Update Home Page locations retrieved from bookmark folder when folder's bookmarks change

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Dave]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

(If the homepage field is set to open all bookmarks in a folder) Under
TOOLS>OPTIONS>HOMEPAGE ... the datafield for the URL does not update when the
contents of the said folder under have been updated.  The result is having to
manually change that field everytime one makes changes to the contents of the
corresponding folder.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Create folder in BookmarksTab
2) Populate with bookmarks of some websites you wish to have opened when
starting browser
3) ToolsTab>OptionsTab> Set that folder as the homepage
4) Restart Browser
5) BookmarksTab> Edit the folder's bookmarks (delete some)
6) Restart Browser
7) The changes have not been made, but inspecting the folder shows the deleted
bookmarks have been removed, however, under ToolsTab>OptionsTab, the homepage
data is unchanged.

Actual Results:  
There are no changes to which tabs open at browser-launch

Expected Results:  
Should have made the connection that this folder was set to be the homepage upon
browser launch and that any changes to the contents of the folder should
automatically be carried over to the homepage-field(Tools>Options>Homepage)

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I believe you're misunderstanding how the function works.  This is not a bug
because this is working as designed.  The Use Bookmark function allows you to
populate the static home page field with the contents of a folder, not create a
dynamic link to the folder's contents.

While this is not a bug, you may want to resubmit this with severity=enhancement
and details on how you would like the feature implemented.  If you are so
inclined, you could go as far as to create the patch yourself for review.

Comment 2

[Erik]

As already mentioned by Mike this is intended behaviour since this feature is
just for ease of entering the URIs you'd like to have as startup-pages rather
than a dynamic link to a folder. In case of a dynamic link I'd have expected to
not see all the URIs listed in the datafield like it's done now, but just the
name of the used Bookmark folder together with an indication that the locations
get retrieved from this bookmark folder or something similar.

=> reducing severity to RFE and tweaked summary

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Confirming, recommending WONTFIX.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

taking QA contact, sorry about the bugspam

Comment 5

[Thomas]

Comment #1, #2 and #3 call this expected behaviour or wontfix.
Shouldn't this bug be closed then?

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

no, this was changed to an enhancement request.

vlad, is this viable without silly perf issues?  If not, feel free to WONTFIX it.

Comment 7

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 341713 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 248876 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Jesse Ruderman]

There seems to be a plan to implement this in bug 318088.

Comment 12

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Still present on Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090404 Minefield/3.6a1pre.

Comment 13

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

This is a rarely used feature - we're not going to invest in making this possible by default (but an add-on could do this relatively easily).