257895 - add "bookmark this page" (current page) to bm sidebar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Tobias Sager]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8


It would be nice if the bookmarks sidebar had a "Bookmark this page" button for
easy, even more userfriendly, bookmarking.

(Yes, I know about the various different possibilities to add a bookmark, but
just saw a user trying to click on the "Bookmarks"-Text for adding the current
page..)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Tobias Sager]

Note bug 72023. Mozilla seems to have it?

Comment 2

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

Confirming RFE. See also bug 210542.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Trying to picture UI that would work with the current sidebar, and failing. With
no selection, you would probably dump a new bookmark at the bottom of root. With
a selection (you first open the Foo folder, to see if you've bookmarked Hot Foo
Deals) you're okay, unless you have normal bookmarks, with a few hundred
unfoldered things in the root. If you're really cunning, you can get the
selection where you want by clicking a folder or separator, then arrow-scrolling
to the right place. Otherwise, you're likely to click the bookmark you want to
insert below, and open it over the page you wanted to bookmark, or maybe, having
selected a folder to check it, you want to clear your selection to add at the
bottom of root, so you do what you would do to any other selection to clear it,
ctrl-click, and open the whole folder in tabs.

Of course, it could just be a totally unconnected button that brings up the
usual dialog, frustratingly ignoring your selected folder (since that's wontfixed).

Now if the bookmarks sidebar was actually the right pane of the bookmarks manager...

Comment 4

[Tobias Sager]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Of course, it could just be a totally unconnected button that brings up the
> usual dialog, frustratingly ignoring your selected folder (since that's 
> wontfixed).

Phil, which wontfixed-bug are you speaking of?


I would propose to simply open the usual dialog with the current open folder (in
the sidebar) as default location for the bookmark.

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Why have a button that duplicates a menu item that's maybe 100-150 pixels away?
 This would be clutter for the sidebar, however bug 210542 seems sane enough. 
We need to look at possibly expanding the toolbar palette some more, but
sticking a button like this in the sidebar would be a little much, and would
introduce an inconsistency with the History sidebar, which we've worked at
making functionally identical.

Comment 6

[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