223936 - can't import bookmarks if you've deleted all bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 214966

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[edi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

When you delete every bookmark already present within the bookmarks manager,
then you may want to import your already organized file "bookmarks.html".
BUT
If  you close the bookmark manager BEFORE importing, you're stuck! Can't add
folders, separators etc. And you can't import external files with bookmarks.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open bookmark manager
2.select every bookmark
3.delete all of them from contextula menu on selection
4.close bookmark manager
5.reopen bookmark manager
6.try to import bookmarks anyway...


Actual Results:  
you're stuck. you can't actually manage bookmarks if you emptied your bookmarks
population and subsequently closed the bookmark manager

Expected Results:  
let you import/manage

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 214966 ***

Comment 2

[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