22642 - Cannot permanently delete Imported IE Favorites folder

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[lotek]

Run Mozilla. Delete the Imported IE Favorites folder from Bookmarks|Manage
Bookmarks. Close Mozilla. Run Mozilla. The folder is back.
Mozilla should not automatically import IE Favorites each time it's opened, but
it would be a good option to have in Bookmarks.

Comment 1

[don]

Hmmmm ... good point.  Steve, is it supposed to work like this?

Comment 2

[Alistair Vining]

In addition, the Favorites folder shouldn't be migrated if it's empty, which
currently happens.  I have an empty Favorites folder that won't go away...

Comment 3

[Alistair Vining]

In addition, if the Favorites folder is empty, it doesn't behave like other 
empty folders, which lose the little arrow on the right.  Instead, a tiny 1 or 2 
pixel menu pops out when selected.

Comment 4

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

(happens on Mac, too)

Comment 5

[don]

Move to M16 for now ...

Comment 6

[Fredrik Sundberg]

It's important you should be able to delete the IE Favorites folder for good. 
It's a good feature to import them when you install Mozilla, but if you have 
deleted it, the folder shouldn't be imported every time you start the Browser. 
It's really annoying for anyone who keeps track of their bookmarks.

Why not put the import of Favorites in the 'Import Utility' (where it logically 
should be) tool instead?

Comment 7

[Adam]

Also, you can't move the stupid thing. (Click and drag to rearrange doesn't work. 
It's rooted itself in there pretty well.)

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 39840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[don]

Move to M21 target milestone.

Comment 10

[Henrik Lynggaard Hansen]

usability issue, worth dealing with before release in my oppinion

Comment 11

[Grey Hodge (jX)]

To be blunt, for those of us who do not USE IE AT ALL, it's damn annoying.

I think I can see why this may have been a useful idea. People who use both 
browsers see their IE Bookmarks (I refuse to call them favorites) always current 
in Mozilla, but see nothing from Mozilla in IE, thus making Moz look smarter 
than IE. But, it never quits.

How about just a simple flag in the user prefs.js file?
user_pref("import.ie.favorites", false);

Comment 12

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Stuff like this isn't going to get fixed between nsbeta3 and rtm. Changing 
keyword.

Comment 13

[johng]

nav triage team:
fyi, this is not "imported", it is a live feed of the folder on your desktop 
called "IE Favorites" so it is always up-to-date.  Vera is planning to add to 
documentation that the user can remove the folder from the disk drive and 
hopefully that will take care of the problem.

This is actually a feature request, so -

Comment 14

[timeless]

Fine it's a feature request to supress a poorly implemented feature.

Relnote3, and RTM: "It is impossible to permanently delete this folder from 
your mozilla/netscape6 bookmarks" [have a nice day].

Comment 15

[Alex]

[e-mail]:

That doesn't solve the problem for people like me:
My brother uses IE, I use Mozilla. I don't want his bookmarks. This means that I 
can't remove the IE bookmarks folder, as you suggested as a solution to the 
problem.

There needs to be a way to turn accessing the IE bookmarks off.

Comment 16

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

A similar situation: I can't delete the IE Favorites folder on this computer. 
`You cannot move "Favorites" from the folder "System Folder", because you do not 
have the privilege to make changes.'

Filed bug 52431 about synchronizing Mozilla's bookmarks with those of another 
browser, instead of this hokey folder thing.

Comment 17

[timeless]

This could probably be fixed by hacking our magic entry so that when it is 
"deleted" it is marked with some attribute that prevents it from displaying.  
This would probably map to a preference that lives near the Go|Search|Bookmarks 
checkboxes.

At first I thought that the correct thing to do would be to leave this flag in 
the bookmarks file, as I thought about the undelete method I considered it as a 
preference.  I don't know enough about how we handle magic folders to know if 
we could trap the delete event for just one.

Comment 18

[Adam Lock]

The "Imported IE favorites" bookmark doesn't show a popup menu either. At the
very least right-clicking on it should display a popup allowing the user to
delete the folder (permenantly of course)

Comment 19

[Luke]

*** Bug 56640 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Blake Ross]

this is covered in bug 56765

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 56765 ***

Comment 21

[timeless]

It is not. Please keep this separate. Thank you.

Comment 22

[K Chayka]

win32 build 110420 crashes when the IE favorites folder is deleted.  
Running on win98SE. Steps to reproduce:

1. Start Mozilla
2. Select Bookmarks|Manage Bookmarks
3. Select IE Favorites folder and hit delete key
4. Close Mozilla
5. Crash

Talkback did not kick in, but here is console log. Dr Watson attached.

Contents of console log:
has multiple monitor apis is 1
Move window by 580,484.5
New location for profile registry and user profile directories is -> 
C:\WINDOWS\APPLICATION DATA\Mozilla
start with profile: Default
ProfileManager : StartApprunner
profileName passed in: Default I am inside the initialize
 Hey : You are in QFA Startup 
(QFA)Talkback loaded Ok.
Setting content window
*** Pulling out the charset
Loading page specified via openDialog
in SetSecurityButton
Document http://www.mozilla.org/ loaded successfully
Hey : You are in QFA Shutdown 

Comment 23

[K Chayka]

Attachment: Dr Watson of crash

Comment 24

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 79 Bookmarks bugs to Ben.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

Feel free to filter all this spam into the trashcan by looking for this string 
in the message body: ducksgoquack

Comment 25

[Kathleen :Brade]

reported 11/14/2000 by Jacob Arnold at http://www.macintouch.com/netscape6.html

Comment 26

[Kathleen :Brade]

reported 11/15/2000 by Jim Thomason at http://www.macintouch.com/netscape6.html

Comment 27

[Kathleen :Brade]

reported 11/15/2000 by Steve Palm at http://www.macintouch.com/netscape6.html

Comment 28

[verah (gone)]

Removing myself from list of cc's. I hope this gets fixed!

Comment 29

[Blake Ross]

This was a common complaint from Netscape 6 users, and should be addressed for 
beta1...

Comment 30

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

reported 01/08/2001 by Art Hughes on n.p.m.wishlist ("various issues", no.3)

Comment 31

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Netscape Nav Triage Team: adding german to the cc list.  we need to design this 
behavior.

Comment 32

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Yeah, we need to solve this issue, but not now. Marking nsbeta1-

Comment 33

[Fabian Guisset]

*** Bug 68926 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 34

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

reported 2/16/2001 by Jerry Park on n.p.m.seamonkey

Not now? Sorry, but I can't follow. This is in the top 12 of the voting charts,
and sounds like it has a good reward/effort ratio. Re-nominating by replacing
the nsbeta1- keyword with the nsbeta1 keyword, per keyword description. Please
have a second look. If it get's nsbeta1- again, I'll stop whining.

Comment 35

[Matthew Wilson]

Attachment: Proposed patch

Comment 36

[Matthew Wilson]

Above patch adds a preference for importing the Favorites on startup. The UI 
for the prefs needs a bit of cross-platform work (presumably Unix doesn't need 
the pref, and BeOS needs to refer to NetPositive bookmarks?) but this can be 
done if the approach is sound. Review?

Comment 37

[timeless]

sounds like IEFavorites is the wrong term.
ben, can we rename it systemFavorites?

Import is inaccurate, let's use Include.

this whitespace change is bad:
-  </titledbox>              
+  </titledbox>             
if you're going ^ to change trailing whitespace please trim all of it.

asside from my wording nits, this patch looks great.

german: thoughts about Include?

Comment 38

[Matthew Wilson]

Renaming of IE Favorites is currently bug 68858.

Anyone in a position to test on a Mac?

Comment 39

[Lorin Rivers]

I can test it, but I need a binary...

Comment 40

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

+<!ENTITY  IEFavorites.label             "IE Favorites">

We should probably use `Internet Explorer™' rather than `IE', because more people 
will know what `Internet Explorer' is than what `IE' is. (Abbreviations are 
generally bad UI, except for units of measurement.) I don't think we should use 
`system favorites', for cross-platform reasons -- Internet Explorer favorites 
aren't system favorites on either Mac OS or Solaris (where IE is also present), 
and it's probably not worth doing platform-specific stuff for this bug until this 
fix is made obsolete by the fix for bug 56765.

+<!ENTITY  IEFavoritesExplanation.label  "&brandShortName; can create a bookmark 
to your IE Favorites on startup.">

It's not a bookmark, it's a folder full of bookmarks. And they're not created on 
startup, they're dynamic based on the contents of the Favorites folder.

+<!ENTITY  importIEFavorites.label       "Import IE Favorites on startup">

This is the only entity you should need. Having a group box, and in-line help 
text, just for a single checkbox which has a relatively simple function, seems 
rather extreme.

[/] Show Internet Explorer™ "favorites" in their own bookmarks folder

Comment 41

[Matthew Wilson]

>It's not a bookmark, it's a folder full of bookmarks. And they're not created 
>on 
>startup, they're dynamic based on the contents of the Favorites folder.

I think that what I said describes what actually happens - although not 
necessarily what it looks like to the user. There *is* a single bookmark 
created, which points to the location of the IE Favorites folder on disk - you 
can create one yourself, or for other directories, such as the desktop.

The reason I mentioned startup in the preference text is that unchecking the 
preference does not instantly delete your IE Favorites folder, you have to 
restart for that to happen.

Comment 42

[Matthew Wilson]

"Create bookmark folder containing Internet Explorer favorites when &brandname; 
starts up" ?

>This is the only entity you should need. Having a group box, and in-line help 
text, just for a single checkbox which has a relatively simple function, seems 
rather extreme.

It is consistent with the current bookmark prefs though. Which group box should 
this new pref be included in?

Comment 43

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

As long as the UI isn't lying, it's what it looks like to the user (rather than 
how it is implemented) which is important.

> Which group box should this new pref be included in?

It shouldn't. Prefs in group boxes should be the exception, rather than the rule.

Comment 44

[Matthew Wilson]

Attachment: Revised patch incorporating UI suggestions

Comment 45

[Eric Hodel]

adding self to CC, timeless wants me to modify the patch

Comment 46

[Eric Hodel]

Attachment: previous patch with IE --> system and pref added to all.js

Comment 47

[Matthew Wilson]

I note that
1) the UI will still refer to Internet Explorer (pref-bookmarks.dtd)
2) nsBookmarksService.cpp still refers to the pref
browser.bookmarks.import_IE_favorites not browser.bookmarks.import_system_favorites
3) there's an unrelated history change in there

Comment 48

[Eric Hodel]

Attachment: Revised patch

Comment 49

[Eric Hodel]

That's what I get for posting a patch when tired, sorry for the spam.
1) I think the UI strings should be platform dependent because BEOS is 
mentioned in nsBookmarksService.cpp but there are no entities.  Ask timeless 
for the specifics.
2) Fixed (thanks for the heads up)
3) Removed

Comment 50

[Matthew Wilson]

re: 1. I originally suggested that this bug would need cross-platform work
(NetPositive Bookmarks on BeOS, not applicable on Linux etc). but Matthew Thomas
thought that "it's probably not worth doing platform-specific stuff for this bug".

Comment 51

[timeless]

*** Bug 70127 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 52

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

The latest patch:
*   still refers to `import_system_favorites' rather than `import_ie_favorites',
    potentially causing confusion with any future pref which really does include
    the system favorites rather than the Internet Explorer favorites;
*   still talks about creating the folder `on startup', when as far as the user
    is concerned that is irrelevant.

Neither of those are huge problems, though.

Comment 53

[timeless]

mpt: yes the idea is to refer to system favorites, not ie favorites, because we 
were abusing the elements to have IE Favorites refer to netpositive bookmarks 
which makes no sense.

Note to self, I owe this patch some love for the preference ui. [refactor dtd 
values into platform files]

Comment 54

[Matthew Wilson]

mpt: If we do not mention startup, then it looks as though unchecking the 
preference will instantly delete the Imported IE Favorites folder; it will not.

Comment 55

[slipszi]

mpt: there are three possible solutions to the "on startup" problem:

- add a text that explains that the changes will take effect the next time he 
restarts the browser
- when the user checks/unchecks this option, bring up a pop-up telling her/him 
when the changes will take effect
- actually delete/insert the bookmark when the user checks/unchecks the option

I prefer the third solution, but I don't know if the insertion can be done...

Comment 56

[Lorin Rivers]

As a user I would like the option to import them, move them around, and so on, 

without having them be in a "ie favorites" folder.

Comment 57

[Jacob Steenhagen]

Lorin,
 That's more closely related to bug 56765 then this one.

Comment 58

[Keyser Sose]

*** Bug 70822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 59

[Claudius Gayle]

i haven't looked at the actual text of the patch but can't you just change the wording from
'on startup' to 'after restart'?  I think most folks get the ramifications of that. (i.e. not now but later)

Comment 60

[C.R. Labombard]

I didn't have to close Mozilla for it to crash on me --all I did was try to 
delete the IE folder.  After hitting the delete option in the editing menu, 
Watson showed up with a 'c0000005 (access violation)'.

This is on NT with build 2001031008


--C. Labombard

Comment 61

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

The fix to allow the IE Favourites folder to be turned off is (as far as I can 
see) to set up the pref, and then add code to check for it in the tests on line 
4914 (Mac) and 4217 (Windows) of nsBookmarksService.cpp. 

So, we can have a UI option which immediately sets a pref. Then, the next time 
the Bookmarks menu is pulled down, they'll be gone. (If they are cached, we 
merely call ReadBookmarks again.)

Gerv

Comment 62

[Matthew Wilson]

Gerv: s/4914/4194. And isn't that pretty much what the current patch does?

>Then, the next time the Bookmarks menu is pulled down, they'll be gone.

Doesn't happen. (because the Imported IE Favorites directory is saved out as 
part of the bookmarks?)

Are there actually any problems with the latest patch? What is stopping it 
being reviewed and checked in?

Comment 63

[Stephen Walker]

*** Bug 74195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 64

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

This is not a Netscape priority for beta, marking nsbeta1-. The mozilla community 
is more than welcome to fix this bug, though. ;-)

Comment 65

[Matthew Wilson]

51 votes and a patch - what more does the "mozilla community" have to do?

Although the patch itself now needs

-  <checkbox id="importSystemFavorites" value="&importSystemFavorites.label;"
+  <checkbox id="importSystemFavorites" label="&importSystemFavorites.label;"

following the XUL syntax changes.

Comment 66

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

> what more does the "mozilla community" have to do?

0. agree that with the patch applied things are better than without
1. get a review and a super-review
2. check it in

Someone probably needs to volunteer to drive this to the finish. To indicate
that you are willing to do this, just take the bug (reassign it to yourself).
Ben, can you review or comment, please? Or recommend someone else for review?

Comment 67

[Matthew Wilson]

*** Bug 76548 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 68

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

This requires some more thought. Placing into .9.2. as it is a popular bug 
however and causes some bookmarks usability issues. 

Comment 69

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Here's the solution I want: 

No preferences panel UI. This is more of a view option than a checkbox in 
prefs. 

Show the folder by default. Allow the user to delete it, perform a delete and 
then update the pref. Have a menu item in the view menu maybe, with platform 
text:

[x] Internet Explorer Favorites (Windows and Mac). 
[ ] NetPositive Favorites (BeOS)

Not sure what the work is like for Mac and BeOS, but should be fairly 
straightforward for Windows. 

Checking the item will recreate the folder. 

I'm not going to get to this before .9.2, and then outliner work may take 
priority, but someone who produces a patch along these lines will be greatly 
appreciated ;) Please note that I want an XP solution as that's the way I'd do 
it myself. 

Comment 70

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 77316 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 71

[Matthew Wilson]

*** Bug 78160 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 72

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Attachment: changes to fix bug (back end + FE removal)

Comment 73

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

This is not actually a patch, (well, it was extracted from a larger one). 
It's possible to hand-apply. Implements support required from 
nsBookmarksService.cpp for removal of system favorites folders. Adds the same 
pref from previous patches to disable the adding of the folder on startup. Hooks 
up a set of this pref into the delete function in bookmarksOverlay.js. 

Still left: add a checkbox to the 'System' panel in preferences to allow this to 
be re-activated. 

Comment 74

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

This patch should also prevent the addition of multiple favorites folders, as it 
does a case insensitive compare for filename. 

Comment 75

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Ben - great!

> This is not actually a patch, (well, it was extracted from a larger one). 
> It's possible to hand-apply. 

Does this mean that:
a) You are working on this in another patch and it'll get checked in as part of
that soon, or
b) You want someone else to pick this code up, make a proper patch and add the
pref to the prefs UI somewhere?

Gerv

Comment 76

[timeless]

Can we not call NetPositive bookmarks IEFavorites?

Comment 77

[Oliver Klee]

*** Bug 79512 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 78

[Oliver Klee]

marking mostfreq: 9 dupes + the press reports.

Comment 79

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** Bug 80071 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 80

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Not an ns stopper, marking future

Comment 81

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Oh man. This bug has 70 votes, 9 dupes, and was one of the oft-commented on 
"features" of NS 6 that people disliked. Why why why?

Comment 82

[xolaware.llc]

i tried to use my other 9 votes for this bug, but it won't let me vote for it 
more than once.  the sooner this is fixed, the better, as far as i'm concerned.  
i'd prefer a few of the crashers i get over this.

Comment 83

[Lorin Rivers]

This is one of those things that keeps me from using Mozilla as my main 
browser. It's so annoying...

And it's been there SOOOOOO long.

Please change this behavior.

Make it an option (Would you like to import you IE bookmarks?)

Comment 84

[Warner Young]

I thought this was mostly done, and was only lacking a UI for it.  If that's 
true, how do I change my prefs to get rid of the IE favorites?

Comment 85

[Marcus Pallinger]

I like the fact that you have an up-to-date version of your IE bookmarks, which
can be useful if you use both browsers. Although it would be nice to make it
either optional, and/or allow adding/moving/copying/deleting to/from the IE
bookmarks folder.

Comment 86

[Matthew Wilson]

Ben, where are we up to with your patch?

I have a UI patch if people are interested. It adds "Internet Explorer 
Favorites" (or the platform equivalent) to the Bookmark Manager/View menu.

Comment 87

[Blake Ross]

I follow Simon's lead in asking 'why' here.  Ben is a busy guy, but I don't see 
how this bug is less important than the other plussed bugs on his plate.  Are 
people expected to complain more about bug 75470 than this?  Or 68985 or 81213?

Renominating; this should also be catfood, because more than a couple reviews 
mentioned it.  I would be happy to help out in fixing this (I'll talk to Ben 
about where he is on this...)

Comment 88

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Pessimistically 0.9.3, as I already have a patch

Comment 89

[Viswanath Ramachandran]

nav triage: not sure why this is catfood. its a nice to have - hence scheduled
into m0.9.3. if someone wants to take it, thats fine too ;). 

Comment 90

[Peter Lairo]

SEMI-SPAM: Vishi is not sure why this is nsCatFood??? Doesn't he know what that
means??? Hasn't he seen all the CC's, all the votes??? All the comments for this
bug??? Vishi, if this isn't a "serious user *satisfaction* issue" (not user
"usability") and your managers don't slap you upside the you-know-what, then
Mozilla will surely fail - steamrolling over such obvious user satisfaction
issues is no good omen. Please remove the #*§%& minus sign from nsCatFood!!!
END-OF-SPAM, and apologies for loosing my "cool" (it's 3:00 AM).

Comment 91

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Attachment: diff version of earlier patch.

Comment 92

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

So I've had this patch in my tree for some time now, and it'd be a little hard 
to remove it, and since the code collides with other nsbeta1+ fixes I have, I'd 
like to just check it in. I don't see any harm, it seems to work. Need review, 
super review. 

Comment 93

[Blake Ross]

sr=blake

Comment 94

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

r=hixie, with two minor comments: first, your diff is screwed up (one of the
files is in there twice??) and second, dude, remove the tabs...

Comment 95

[Fabian Guisset]

apart from the horrrrrible indentation this patch looks good to me as well,
unfortunately I could not test it as I build only on linux, and bill knows that
there is no such thing as favourites on linux 

Comment 96

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Tabs are a long standing issue in this file (you can thank rjc). Since this 
isn't really a large modification to the file, I've chosen not to start a fight 
in my text editor (as it'd eventually end up in a war, with many casualties, 
botched braces and failed compilations). 

I plan on reformatting the file function by function as I make localized 
changes. 

As for the double patch, oops, that'll teach me to use >> too liberally ;) 

Comment 97

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

a= [e-mail] for checkin to the trunk.
(on behalf of drivers)

Comment 98

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Patch checked in.

Comment 99

[Skewer]

I can't seem to delete any of my bookmarks now. As soon as I click on one, the
"delete" button is disabled, and never re-enables.

Comment 100

[Alex]

Skewer, that's bug 83642. It's unrelated to this bug because bug 83642 showed up
a few days ago.

Comment 101

[Matthew Wilson]

Is this really fixed, if that there is no UI for it? Or is there a UI patch on 
the way?

Comment 102

[Matthew Wilson]

Attachment: Patch to enable Delete for the IE Favorites folder

Comment 103

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Oops, forgot about that. Delete key and Delete button on toolbar work though.
Can we take the details to a new bug to prevent spam? 

Comment 104

[Matthew Wilson]

Sounds like a good idea.

Ben, I have a more complete UI patch if you are interested in seeing it.

Comment 105

[Skewer]

Works for me 2001060504 Win98. I don't remember how I deleted it but it hasn't
come back.

Comment 106

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

verified fixed with win2k build 20010605.. (CVS opt)
BTW: how can I get the IE Bookmarks back :-)

Comment 107

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Matthias:

good question!
Open your prefs.js file and remove the pref for
browser.bookmarks.import_system_favorites.

Not the best solution, so file a new bug on me to create a UI for this. mpt has
suggested the system panel in the past, but lets leave that for a new bug. 

Matthew Wilson, could you also file a bug on me for your patch? Thanks. 

Comment 108

[Peter Lairo]

OK, I created bug 84281 for "Prefs UI to show/hide Imported IE Favorites folder".

That way, we can get the IE favs back if we ever change our minds or
accidentally deleted them ;)

Comment 109

[Markus Gerstel]

Has this regressed on newer builds ? (2001122603)

Comment 110

[Kurt]

Sorry if I missed the obvious, but this bug is marked "fixed" and "closed" back
in 2001 for target milestone 0.9.3, and here I am in 2002 with a brand new
milestone 0.9.9 (build 2002031104 on Win98SE) and I still don't know how to
*permanently* delete that stupid IE favorite folder Mozilla keeps creating each
time I start it...
Yes, I did read through the thread, and yes, I did notice a handfull of patches,
but I don't think installing a 0.9.3 patch on my 0.9.9 build would be a good
idea. And AFAIK usually a patch gets integrated into future versions. What am I
missing?

Comment 111

[Andrew Hagen]

Please see bug 84272. If that isn't what you want, please open a new bug.