257023 - delete key should delete selected bookmark in bookmarks menu and toolbars

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Jeremy M. Dolan]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040823 Firefox/0.9.1+
If you navigate the Bookmarks menu with the keyboard (alt+b, then arrow keys),
there is no way to delete the selected bookmark. You must switch to the mouse,
right click the selected bookmark, and then hit 'd'. Same behaviour in the
bookmark folders on the toolbar.

The delete key should delete the selected entry.

Also, the bookmarks menu/folder should not collapse when deleting a bookmark.
This makes it very very difficult and frustrating to delete more than 1 bookmark
from within a subfolder or three. I suppose I may need to file a seperate bug on
this.

Comment 1

[Salvatore Capalbi]

Also the windows version is affected by this bug.

Comment 2

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

There's an existing bug filed on the menu collapsing that I can't find right
now; but we can't fix it any time soon.  Both problems here are essentially the
same issue internally, and due to the way things are set up, we can't support
deleting via the keyboard in the menu.  The menu is a horrible way to manage
bookmarks; the bookmarks sidebar and/or bookmarks manager are intended for that. 

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