232582 - Top-level (root) bookmark folder description lost after exiting Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Alex Eng]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040125

The description property of the top-level ("root") Bookmark folder (named
"Bookmarks for <profile_name>" in Mozilla, and just "Bookmarks" in Mozilla
Firebird) isn't being saved. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display the Bookmark Manager window (using Bookmarks | Manage Bookmarks).

2. Select the top-level bookmark folder, i.e. the very first entry in the list,
and then choose Edit | Properties (or click the Properties toolbar button).

3. In the dialog box that appears, enter some text in the Description text
field, then click OK.

4. Exit Mozilla, then restart it and open the Bookmark Manager window again. 
Observe the Description property of the top-level bookmark folder.

Actual Results:  
The Description property of the top-level bookmark folder is gone.  No
descriptive text is visible.

Expected Results:  
The Description property of the top-level bookmark folder should contain the
text entered in step 3 above.

Comment 1

[Hermann Schwab]

confirming on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7a) Gecko/20040129

I created description properties for the root folder and my personal toolbar
folder, closed the bookmarks manager, reopened, and they were still seen.
Closed Mozilla, reopened Mozilla, BookmarksManager, and the description was lost
from the Root folder, but ok (saved) on the Personal Toolbar folder.

Comment 2

[Pierre Chanial]

I was aware of this problem.
The bookmarks parser and serializer need some important refactoring to handle
the root bookmarks as a normal bookmarks folder.

Comment 3

[Michael Dooley]

Behavior also observed for Windows 2000

This behavior (failure to retain changes to Bookmark Properties or Properties
for Bookmarks "Name=Bookmarks" - i.e. the top level bookmark - was also noted
(present) in Version 1.6 and I suspect can be tracked to prior versions also.

Comment 4

[Ray Booysen]

Reassigning as per Bug #32644

Comment 5

[:Hb]

Confirming for SM 2.0 on Linux and Win. Next minor version probably will use a bookmarks database instead of a file and having this bug fixed by that.

Comment 6

[Phoenix]

With moving to Places there are no more description for root toolbar folder thus this report become obsolete, so closing