262806 - live bookmark icon should change color/shape if content has changed

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Noam Tamim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

Assuming Firefox can automatically (after a specified interval) refresh live
bookmarks, it will be of great benefit to have the icon of the bookmark changed
when there is a content change.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

dupe of 260849 , mark read / unread items ?

Comment 2

[Noam Tamim]

No, bug 260849 is about the items. I talk about the feed itself - for example, I
have a slashdot feed in my bookmarks toolbar folder. When there are new items, I
want the feed icon (the blue "folder" icon) to change color to green. That way,
I will know I have some more news to read.
Combining this with Gmail's new atom feed for new messages, and with
autorefreshing a specific feed every 2 minutes, will get you a lightweight - yet
very powerful - "Gmail Notifier". And I imagine other web mail services will
adopt the idea as well.

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

fair point ->NEW

Comment 4

[Hari Kumar G]

The live bookmarks folders within the Bookmark manager itself should be shown in
a different color.  At least the user could differentiate between Live Bookmarks
and ordinary bookmarks folders there.  Now all of them appear the same.  

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 320964 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Shawn Smith]

Any new updates?  This would be fantastic.  A count of new items at the end of the name might also be an interesting enhancement like SAFARI RSS on the Mac.

Comment 7

[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 8

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.