248537 - Request: Select multiple bookmarks while in drop-down menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[David Bruhn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

I know this is already possible in the bookmarks manager, but it would be easier
if that extra step could be cut out by allowing multiple bookmarks to be
selected for moving, deleting, ect... 

My first thought was that it should be done by holding shift, as with in the
manager and with emails, but then I noticed that holding shift is already used
(to open said bookmark in a new window). Maybe shift and right click (?), or
some other combination...?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try selcting multiple bookmarks from dropdown menu


Actual Results:  
2 It's impossible

Expected Results:  
It should be possible

Comment 1

[Bogdan Stroe]

The modifier keys are used for something else in this context, see bug 246719.
On the other hand, multiple selection in menus is not something common, I don't
know if it's such a good idea.

Comment 2

[David Bruhn]

But shift-rightclick is not taken yet, to my knowlege, and the combination
doesn't seem too unnatural. And for those of us with tons of bookmarks and 64
folders, the bookmark manager is really too clunky; it's often easier to handle
bookmarks one at a time from the menu, but they could all be done at once, it
would be that much easier. "not something common"? Since when has that been part
of Mozilla's philosophy? 

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Doing multiple selections isn't compatible with the traditional usage of menus,
including bookmark menus.  The bookmark manager and bookmarks sidebar are there
to do more advanced sorting, we don't need to add something weird to our menus.
 There's already enough weirdness in handling focus code, the last thing we need
to do is add something to the house of cards that really is something oddball.

Doing stuff that isn't expected is basically code bloat, if most users don't use
it.  Mozilla's old philosophy was along the lines of "sure, why not?" and that
led to seamonkey, which is what drove the Phoenix project's inception.

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** Bug 294391 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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