253633 - Ability for 'add bookmark' to have expanded folder view by default

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[steve herfst]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.8

I personally like to be able to view the expanded view of the folder, rather
than having the most recently added folder only listed.

I turn off custom menus automatically in MS Office and I should have that same
option in Firefox (w.r.t Bookmarks).

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Start Firefox
2.  Add a bookmark of the present site
Actual Results:  
The expanded folder is not displayed by default

Expected Results:  
The expanded folder should be displayed
OR
The option to have an expanded folder listing (like Microsoft)

Comment 1

[Hiro]

*** Bug 264033 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

The OpenBook extension (available at http://www.chuonthis.com/extensions/ )
allows this functionality. Making the dialog more complex by default isn't
something that is likely to be done, especially since there are extensions
available that do it.

Comment 3

[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

Comment 5

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Why not simply remember the current state of the expansion widget when the box is closed?  This is a pretty common behavior; for example, on Mac OS X, the state of that widget is remembered for file save dialog boxes.