258824 - automatically recognize <link> in feeds when adding Live Bookmark manually

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Sekundes]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 Firefox/0.10

When adding Live Bookmark manually(File -> New Live Bookmark... in Bookmarks
Manager), it only provides the URL to be filled in as FEEDURL attribute in
bookmarks.html.
However, it makes Live Bookmark empty in Location column in Bookmark Manager due
to the lack of URL attribute.
Besides, this makes the Live Bookmark couldn't be imported to Mozilla as links
for backwards-compatibility.
I hope the <link> element inside feeds could be filled automatically when adding
Live Bookmark in order to fix the above issues.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

This works now as far as I can see.

Comment 2

[Sekundes]

It merely works via subscribing icon from the statusbar but not manually adding
Live Bookmark from Bookmarks Manager.
I tested on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3)
Gecko/20041015 Firefox/0.10.

Comment 3

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

The problem with this is that the URL is normally obtained from the page that
you were on when the feed was discovered. When adding the feed manually, there
is no such page, so it's pretty much impossible to get a base URL. Are you
suggesting there be a field to allow entering it manually?

Comment 4

[Sekundes]

My original idea is making Firefox replaces the URL when there's <link> element 
which is on the same level of the <title> element in the feed.
Is it of practical use? If not, allow entering manually is also a good idea for 
me.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***

Comment 7

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

Not a dupe...

Comment 8

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Filed bug 341972 for updating the site URI when the feed is parsed in Places; I really doubt it's going to get fixed in the old-style parser, though.

Comment 9

[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 10

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

fixed in places