210331 - personal toolbar bug - cannot drag and add to the personal toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Doug Lerner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030612

Dragging a URL or URL icon from the address input field to the personal toolbar
area doesn't work. The personal toolbar item is not created and a "beep" is
played instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a URL or URL icon
2.Attempt to drag to the personal toolbar area (which contains "Home" and
"Bookmarks" by default)
3.

Actual Results:  
A short alert "beep" tone is played and nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
The dragged URL should have been added to the personal toolbar area.

Comment 1

[Doug Lerner]

I found the cause and a work-around for this bug. The problem apparently is that
no folder is, by default, designated as the personal toolbar folder.

If you "manage bookmarks", add a folder and then via the View Menu designate the
folder as your personal toolbar folder the personal toolbar then works, you can
drag URL icons into it, etc.

So I guess this bug might better be called "no default personal toolbar folder".

doug

Comment 2

[Matthew Buckett]

I also found this problem on Mozilla 1.5 on Linux, I think it is a cross
platform bug.

Really the browser should pop up a message explaining the situation when a link
is added to the personal toolbar when there is no personal toolbar folder
selected in the bookmarks.

Should this bug belong in the bookmarks component?

Comment 3

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Can anyone reproduce this with a recent build?

Comment 4

[Robert Morris]

*** Bug 214696 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Robert Morris]

Is the personal toolbar folder empty when this happens? If so, check out bug
224112. Could this be a dupe?

Comment 6

[Robert Morris]

I forgot this in my other comment; sorry.

Bug 214155 also looks like it might be related.

Comment 7

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

See bug 88711 for the issue of not being able to add stuff to the Personal
Toolbar (PT) if the PT folder is deleted. The issue in here seems to be that
there wasn't any PT folder set as default? Or did it disappear? If Dough is on
mac os 10.1.5 this could be related to bug 221843 (bookmarks lost). Dough, what
version of mac os are you on? Can you still reproduce this with a current build?

Comment 8

[Mike S.]

 Mac OS X 10.2.8
 Firebird build: Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040127 Firebird/0.8.0+

 Dragging a URL or it's icon from the URL input field to the bookmarks bar
results in the successful creation of a bookmark. Also successfully ads within
folders on the bar.

Comment 9

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Since nobody seems to be able to reproduce this and the last comment from the
reporter is over 6 months old --> wfm.