Open Bug 248352 Opened 20 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Preserve sort order when migrating bookmarks from IE

Categories

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Migration
Platform:
All
Windows
Type:
defect

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People

(Reporter: codedread, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9 When I import my bookmarks from IE, the top-level bookmarks menu maintains the same order as in IE. However, the subfolders within the bookmarks folder do not maintain the same ordering. This means sub-subfolders are intermixed with regular bookmarks in some "random" fashion. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: Subfolders within bookmarks should maintain the same order as in IE.
All folders inported from IE are unsorted.
*** Bug 270575 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirming bug based on dupes.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
I just learned of why this happens today from http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/iefavorites.html (in case it helps anyone solve this bug)
In case it wasn't clear, the above link I pasted in contains actual C++ code that solves this problem (http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/iefavorites.html)
Assignee: bugs → nobody
OS: Windows 2000 → Windows XP
*** Bug 330491 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: Migrating bookmarks from IE leaves subfolders unsorted → Migrating bookmarks from IE leaves subfolders unsorted (preserve sort order on import)
*** Bug 269312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 304076 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 276800 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: Migrating bookmarks from IE leaves subfolders unsorted (preserve sort order on import) → When migrating bookmarks from IE, preserve subfolders sort order
Blocks: 164421
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Depends on: 741993
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Assignee: nobody → mano
OS: Windows XP → Windows
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: When migrating bookmarks from IE, preserve subfolders sort order → Preserve sort order when migrating bookmarks from IE
No longer depends on: 741993
Assignee: asaf → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Severity: normal → S3

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 8 duplicates.
:Gijs, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Flags: needinfo?(gijskruitbosch+bugs)

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.

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