238535 - "Most used folders" - special Bookmarking helper folder

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Webmaster33]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316 MultiZilla/1.6.2.0c

Bookmarking becomes difficulter as the number of stored bookmarks & number of
categories (folders) grows.
Would be fine to have a category, which is similar to History, but it contains
the most used (or last used) categories listed.
This special category (folder) may be placed into Personal Toolbar Folder, so
the user could immediately access the last used or most used categories.

"Most used folders" should have a switch, where user could change whether wants
to see last used or most used categories.

The categories listed in "Most used folders", should be expandable the same way
as in their original place. 
Basically the "Most used folders" is a special folder, where any folder can be
linked without the need to move any folder physically to "Most used folders" folder.

I believe, that this feature would be VERY popular, since it makes really easy
to make bookmarks into the most used folders.

Best regards,
Webmaster33

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

Similar to bug 13012. Probably should be marked as duplicate.

Comment 2

[Webmaster33]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Similar to bug 13012. Probably should be marked as duplicate.

No. I checked it, and it's about bookmark promoting or demoting depending on how
often you access them. So it's generally about bookmark items.

What I suggest is completely different thing.
I suggest a bookmark folder list, which is sorted in "most used" or "last used"
order.
My suggestion would also _make the Bookmarking_ itself easier, since the most
accessed or last used FOLDERS(!) would be showed in a special folder, named
"Most used folders".

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Webmaster33]

This is a useful RFE and should be kept.

Comment 5

[Ray Booysen]

Reassigning as per Bug #32644

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

IIUC, the Firefox (trunk) bookmarks are being reorganized, with a change of backend and, among others, a "tags" feature. I suppose these will someday be ported to Sm but I don't know when.

I believe the following Firefox bugs are related:
bug 393529
bug 387996
bug 393510
bug 393511
bug 393512
bug 393513
bug 393514

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

KaiRo: one more bookmarks bug, see comment #6

Comment 8

[Robert Kaiser]

As this is filed in the SeaMonkey realm, 1) I think this is extension fodder and nothing to be implemented in default UI, and 2) this will/would be much easier to do when we move to the places bookmarks backend.

Comment 9

[Phoenix]

Move to Places was happen, but this still looks like extension fodder, any other opinions?

Comment 10

[Philip Chee]

Extension Fodder/WONTFIX