257411 - bookmarks sidebar: folders should collapse/expand and bookmarks should open on double-click instead of single-click

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Norbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040816 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040816 Firefox/0.9.1+

In the bookmarks sidebar, folders expand and collaps and bookmarks open on
single click. This is
impractical and non consistent with all other such folder-trees within Firefox. 

The bookmark manager and the history sidebar for example need a double click.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Folder in bookmarks sidebar collapse and expand and bookmarks open on single click.

Expected Results:  
Folder in bookmarks sidebar should collapse and expand and bookmarks should open
on double click.

Comment 1

[Norbert]

*** Bug 253056 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Norbert]

I think this should be fixed for 1.0 release!

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

This isn't as goog as the current behavior. To get consistent behavior between
the different panels and dialogs I would prefer following action:

- Folders in the sidebar should be expanded/collapsed with double click when
clickt directly onto the name. Instead using the icons '+' or '-' should work
with only one click. This is the current behavior on windows. Perhaps we have to
add an additionally handling for this OS? How does it look like on Linux/Unix/Mac?

- Bookmarks should be opened by only one click. This is the current behavior all
over the UI. IMO it shouldn't be changed. We also would run in trouble with
middle click. I didn't know an application where I have to middle click twice to
start the associated action.

I'm confirming this bug. But we should discuss and IMO changing the summary.

Comment 4

[Norbert]

(In reply to comment #3)


> - Bookmarks should be opened by only one click. This is the current behavior all
> over the UI.

I don't see any reasons why items in the bookmarks sidebar should be opened in a
different way than items in the (identical looking) history sidebar! I think
this confuses the users.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

the decision was taken to standardize on single-click to match IE a long time
ago.  There's a bug on making history match single-click.

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

In that special case and after taking a look at IE => v.

Comment 7

[Norbert]

(In reply to comment #5)
> There's a bug on making history match single-click.

bug 217472 ?

Comment 8

[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