220932 - Can't delete "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder"

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Rob Stow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030929 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20030929 Firebird/0.7+

I have absolutely no use for the Bookmarks Toolbar, yet I can't get rid of the
associated "Bookmarks Toolbar Folder".   I can rename it, move it into another
folder, and change the description, but for some stupid reason or another I
can't delete it.   Even if I delete it by editting my bookmarks.html file the
damned thing still shows up next time I use my bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Method one:
1.  Start Bookmarks Manager
2.  Select the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder
3.  Attempt to delete the useless thing

Method Two:
1.) Close FireBird
2.) Open Bookmarks.html with your favourite text editor
3.) Delete the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder.
4.) Save the file. 

Actual Results:  
Method one:
Using the "delete" key on the keyboard has no effect.
The "Delete" button on the Bookmarks Manager toolbar is disabled and can't be used.

Method two:
No sign of the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder exists in Bookmarks.HTML, yet the
stupied thing is still there next time you start FireBird and use your bookmarks.

Expected Results:  
Deleted the folder.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Generally, swearing in bug reports is a good way to get a bug WONTFIXed...

This is by design, and won't be changed, at least until the "Set as Bookmarks
Toolbar Folder" bug is fixed (bug 205739), since if you can't replace it,
deleting it forces you to create a new profile.

Confirming for now, depends on 205739

Comment 2

[Rob Stow]

How about leaving the intentional Bookmarks Manager bug in so the this folder
can't be casually or accidentally deleted, but at least allow people who
seriously want to get rid of it to do so by editting bookmarks.html ?

BTW, if there is no reference to this folder in my bookmarks.html, then where on
earth is this stored ?  I was hoping I might be able to work around this by
deleting something from a file like localstore.rdf, but there doesn't seem to be
anything there.  Deleting XUL.mfl didn't help either.  I even renamed that
folder "qwertyuiop" to make it easier to search for in other files in my profile
- yet not a single file in my profile contains that string.   

Comment 3

[Pierre Chanial]

WON'TFIX.
The rationale behind making the bookmarks toolbar folder undeletable is that the
number of bugs reported by people who accidently removed it and that couln't
have it back was exceeding the number of report of people that want to remove it
completely (to my knowledge, you're the first one).
As a workaround, rename your BTF, and treat it as a normal folder.

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

verified WONTFIX

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

References:

bug 155685 Indicate bookmarks toolbar folder not deletable
bug 215110 Unable to delete Personal Toolbar Folder

bug 88711 cannot add links to personal toolbar after deleting personal toolbar
folder
bug 82877 Need a way to re-create Personal Toolbar once been deleted

Comment 6

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

*** Bug 227778 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

*** Bug 232517 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Michael Lefevre]

*** Bug 248234 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 249503 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Oleg Sidletskiy]

*** Bug 254796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 254796 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

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

*** Bug 259847 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

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

*** Bug 243011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Kevin Brosnan]

There are two workarounds
1.
As noted in comment 3
Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
Select the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder
Right click and choose properties
Rename it to something 'useful'

2. 
if you have at least one other folder.
Bookmarks -> Manage Bookmarks
In the Bookmark Manager Window 
select some other folder in the right pane
Edit -> Set as Bookmarks Toolbar Folder
You should be able to delete the folder named Bookmarks Toolbar Folder now

Comment 15

[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