262756 - "Bookmark" folder always appears as the first one in the Add New Bookmark dialog.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Roberto Ciang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

I remember that before 1.0PR, when we add a webpage as a bookmark, the drop-menu
of the dialog always show the last 5 folders to which we have added bookmarks,
so this renders convenience if we often add bookmarks to the same folder lately.
But in 1.0PR, there is an item "Bookmark", which is the root directory of all
the bookmarks, always occupying on the top of the drop-menu, and most of the
time we have to press the little downward arrow to use the drop-menu, or even to
expand the whole tree to select the folder we want. I don't know why the
developers put that "Bookmark" item always on top now? And why is there also a
breaking line between it and the last 5 folders? Is this a preparation for
future functions? 

Here's what I recommend: keep 5 most used and 5 last used folders in that
drop-menu, but just don't stick "Bookmark" there, because a lot of people don't
add bookmarks to the Bookmark root folder now, they tend to classify them into
different folders at once, and it's a little waste-of-time for them.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a page to the bookmark.
Actual Results:  
You'll see "Bookmark" folder always appears in the dialog. If you pull the menu
down, you'll see "Bookmark" and a breaking line on top of the 5 last used
folder's names.

Expected Results:  
Before 1.0PR, it's supposed to be the last folder you have used that should be
on top.

Comment 1

[Roberto Ciang]

Attachment: Add a new bookmark

Before 1.0PR, if we evoke such a dialog to add our new bookmark, in the second
row, the drop-menu should show the last folder we have added bookmark to, but
now you always see "Bookmark" (®ÑÅÒ in Chinese) when you open this dialog.

Comment 2

[Roberto Ciang]

Attachment: Pull the menu and Bookmark(®ÑÅÒin Chinese) is always there

Comment 3

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

This was an intentional change; while the old behaviour was useful in some
circumstances (e.g. bookmarking a bunch of pages into the same folder), it was
quite confusing for common usage.  

Comment 4

[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