239532 - Ability to set root bookmark folder as bookmark toolbar folder

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Grey Nicholson (they/them)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040321 Firefox/0.8.0+

I keep all my bookmarks in subfolders of the root bookmark folder; I'd like to
be able to display these subfolders in a toolbar (i.e. the Bookmarks Toolbar).
To this end I'd like to be able to set the root bookmark folder as the bookmark
toolbar folder.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't think the root element is actually a folder, which might require
substantial rearchitecture of the bookmarks service to allow this.  If you want
to have all of your folders on the bookmarks toolbar folder, just create a
folder and drag all of your bookmarks there.

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> I don't think the root element is actually a folder, which might require
> substantial rearchitecture of the bookmarks service to allow this.  If you want
> to have all of your folders on the bookmarks toolbar folder, just create a
> folder and drag all of your bookmarks there.

Mike, in that case this bug should be marked as WONTFIX or?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

yeah, this isn't worth the effort it would require to fix.  Just create said 
folder and put your bookmarks in there.  That's not exactly requiring a 
herculean effort.  The "allow any folder to be added as a toolbar item" bug has 
the potential to make this type of thing easier for users.

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

verified.

Comment 5

[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