226359 - FB bookmarks and folders not alphabetically sorted in two separate lists (as in browser's Bookmarks menu) in Bookmarks Manager even after using MBS

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 211023

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ekhart]

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

If you're in a hurry, you don't need to read this; everything essential is in
the summary above.

Very surprised not to find any bug report on this even though someone
seems to ask about alphabetical bookmark sorting every few days in the forums
(often after being frustrated by spending lots of time first fruitlessly trying
to solve the problem and then looking for an answer in the forums -- who knows
how many people try out FB and give up just because of this problem and the lack
of info about the temporary solution). 

The current inability of Firebird to automatically (or at least
semi-automatically by right-clicking as in IE) sort bookmarks
alphabetically is probably one of the main reasons the average user
would never (yet) dream of switching from IE to FB.

That's why i find it *very* strange that none of the FAQs
(http://texturizer.net/firebird/faq.html nor
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=29534) mention the
problem and the cool temporary solution, MBS, which nevertheless doesn't help
with the single instead of double A--Z list problem.

In case my summary was not descriptive enough, here's a copy of my
correspondence on this bug with Corey Taylor:

No, that only gets the main folder's folders and bookmarks into two consecutive
A--Z lists; it doesn't work for subfolder contents. I'd imagine this is a
well-known bug, but i'll check it out.

Ekhart

Corey Taylor wrote:

> I think what you are observing is the buggy Firebird bookmark manager.
> Try expanding all your folders, and then change the view to sorted then
> back to unsorted. Perhaps this will provide a temporary fix to your
> problem. Maybe this is something you could file a bug report for at
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org.
>
> Corey
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ekhart GEORGI (last name last) [mailto:[e-mail]] Sent:
Thursday, November 20, 2003 3:23 PM
> To: Corey Taylor
> Subject: Re: http://mbs.mozdev.org/installation.html
>
> Aha?! Yes, that "solves" the problem, but only for the main folder, but even
that makes no sense to me. I mean now the main folder does have two
>
> neat A--Z lists with folders and bookmarks separately, but the View menu
>
> claims they're "Unsorted" (bullet next to it). And in any case, the mixed
single list problem still prevails in all the subfolders.
>
> Ekhart
>
>
> Corey Taylor wrote:
>
>
>> Are you sure the "Name" column in the bookmark manager is clear (i.e.
>
>
> no
>
>> arrow icon). Try clicking the "Name" column in the bookmark manager to
>> see if this weird sorting problem goes away. I suspect this may be the
>> problem.
>>
>> Corey
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)
>
>
> [mailto:[e-mail]]
>
>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 2:32 PM
>> To: Corey Taylor
>> Subject: Re: http://mbs.mozdev.org/installation.html
>>
>> This problem exists in the Bookmarks Manager (not in the browser's Bookmarks
menu) even after alphabetizing with MBS:
>>
>> I.e. when you click Bookmarks in the browser, you get a neat list with
>
>
>
>> first all the folders in alphabetical order A--Z followed by the bookmarks
(that are not in any folders) in alphabetical order that starts again at A, but
when you click Bookmarks / Manage Bookmarks,
>
>
> the
>
>> folders and all bookmarks not in folders are mixed up in the same list
>
>
>
>> A--Z (even when you click View / Sorted by Name):
>>
>> E.g., if you have two bookmark *folders* called Downloaded and Finland
>
>
>
>> and a *bookmark* called Computer Geeks Article X, this bookmark will
>
>
> be
>
>> between the folders instead of at the end together with the other bookmarks.
The same chaos is in all the folders if they contain both bookmarks and subfolders.
>>
>> Ekhart
>>
>>
>> Corey Taylor wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I'm not sure what you mean by this. Would you be able to give me an
>>> example of what you mean? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Corey
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ekhart GEORGI (last name last)
>>
>>
>> [mailto:[e-mail]]
>>
>>> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 6:14 AM
>>> To: [e-mail]
>>> Subject: http://mbs.mozdev.org/installation.html
>>>
>>> Oh, yes, and how does one get rid of the mess caused by bookmark
>>
>>
>> folders
>>
>>
>>> and bookmarks being alphabetized in the same list instead of having
>>
>>
>> the
>>
>>> bookmarks in the main folder in a list of their own?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Ekhart
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>

-- 

Ekhart GEORGI

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Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Expected Results:  
Add right-click context menu command Sort by Name to browser Bookmarks menu and
have the result look the same in the Bookmarks Manager.

Comment 1

[Ali Ebrahim]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 211023 ***

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