Closed Bug 251796 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

unable to shift-click to select items in Bookmarks sidebar

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

1.0 Branch
PowerPC
All
defect
Not set
normal

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VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Assigned: vlad)

Details

found using 2004-07-15-09-0.9 (branch) on Mac OS X 10.3.4. I can shift-click to select a range of items in the History Sidebar, but I cannot do the same in the Bookmarks Sidebar. not sure if this is expected behavior, but couldn't find an existing bug on it. found while running http://testrunner.mozilla.org/test.cgi#725 1. make sure you have more than three bookmarks listed in the Bookmarks Sidebar. 2. click one (it'll load in the page). 3. shift-click another. expected: the range between the items clicked in steps 2 and 3 are selected. actual results: the second point at which you shift-click (at step 3) just loads that second item in the web content.
It's expected, but I'm not sure it's correct -- shift-clicking loads the item in a new window for me, which I think is consistent with shift-clicking on bookmarks everywhere other than the bookmarks manager (bookmarks toolbar, bookmarks menu). I agree that it's a little odd though -- the bookmarks sidebar can't seem to decide whether it's a mini bookmarks manager or a tree representation of the bookmarks menu; it seems to be leaning towards the latter.
OS: MacOS X → All
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0?
mixing shift-click and single-click default actions is pretty ugly. Shift-click to select multiple only makes sense if the action of a single click is to select. If the bookmarks sidebar is a tree representation of bookmarks, then this is/should be WONTFIX. If its a bookmarks manager replacement, then we need to switch to double-click and drop the click modifiers. Given that the bookmarks sidebar is relatively inadequate to manage large numbers of bookmarks, I think the former is probably the right answer.
Talked about this previously with ben. We're moving towards the bookmarks sidebar being a quick-access medium, not a management setup, so we're going to go with the single-click setup we currently have. Trying to mix concepts is just a Bad Thing(tm)
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Flags: blocking-aviary1.0? → blocking-aviary1.0-
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Sairuh, Tracy, we're going to need to amend our testcase for this one.
> Sairuh, Tracy, we're going to need to amend our testcase for this one. done, updated testcase and vrfy'ing this as invalid.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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