264241 - Need to allow user specified icons for bookmarks (Favicon Picker Extension).

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Gordon Dickens]

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

The Favicon Picker Extension allows user customized bookmark favicons, however,
it down not enable icons for bookmark folders. IE allows user specified icons
for both bookmarks and bookmark folders and many IE users have exploited this
capability.  These users are very reluctant to move to Firefox since they cannot
specify the icons both for their bookmarks AND bookmark folders as they do with IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

dupe of bug 199877 ? (only about favicons)

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

According to the author of the Favicon Picker extension in
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=140943, it's not possible for the
extension to assign icons to bookmark folders.  I think that's why this bug was
filed.

The Favicon Picker extension can be obtained from
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=103843.

Comment 3

[Takeshi Nishimura]

dupe of bug 173988 ?

As a workaround, you can assign arbitrary image only in bookmark toolbar and
bookmark menu (not sidebar nor bookmark manager). 
1) Check your bookmark folder's ID in bookmarks.html (written as ID="...").
2) Write the following to your userChrome.css.
.bookmark-item[id="rdf:#$xxxxxx"] {
list-style-image: url("http://www.mozilla.org/favicon.ico") !important;
-moz-image-region: auto !important;
}
(replace "rdf:#$xxxxxx" with your bookmark folder's ID)
("http://..." specifies icon image)
3) Restart Firefox.
I've tested on Firefox 1.0. This may not work with future version.

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

looks like a valid enhancement
->NEW

Comment 6

[Adam Guthrie]

*** Bug 310123 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Jose Sa]

(In reply to comment #3)
> dupe of bug 173988 ?
> As a workaround, you can assign arbitrary image only in bookmark toolbar and
> bookmark menu (not sidebar nor bookmark manager). 
> 1) Check your bookmark folder's ID in bookmarks.html (written as ID="...").
> 2) Write the following to your userChrome.css.
> .bookmark-item[id="rdf:#$xxxxxx"] {
> list-style-image: url("http://www.mozilla.org/favicon.ico") !important;
> -moz-image-region: auto !important;
> }
> (replace "rdf:#$xxxxxx" with your bookmark folder's ID)
> ("http://..." specifies icon image)
> 3) Restart Firefox.
> I've tested on Firefox 1.0. This may not work with future version.

Workaround works on FF 1.5 
Still an UI would be prefered.

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

Comment 10

[James Robertson]

The workaround mentioned in Jose Sa's post (2006-01-23 09:41:53 PDT), also works for FF 2.0.0.4. (Thanks for that Jose.)

However, as he says, a UI would be preferred.

Comment 13

[Alex]

My friends and I would love to have this ability. The workaround that Jose Sa mentioned won't work in Firefox 3+, since there are no more IDs specified in bookmarks.html.

Comment 14

[Steve Russell (RaiseMachine)]

This technique still works.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1941214#p1941214

Comment 15

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

This doesn't sound like a candidate for a core feature, but we should also make sure it's possible for an add-on to be able to do this.

Comment 16

[LycianSage]

The Favicon Picker (TFP) is not working properly. if you set a favicon for a domain then TFP uses the favicon just for the specifid URL of the domain.

i.e. if you set "a.ico" for "b.com" then "b.com/gimmefavicon" or "b.com/wherearefavs.htm" doesn't have favicons. 

i think the dialog box for properties of bookmark items should contain a "browse" button for locating a locally stored ".ico" file. even IE has this feature. firefox should have done it so far.

Comment 17

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Attachment: screenshot of labels in OSX

I think we need to take the scope of this bug a tad further and look at the core issue you're trying to tackle: discern various bookmarks that live together from each other usual visual indicators.

The way that is much more accessible and easy to use is colored labels as seen on OSX and many other apps that expose this behavior on other platforms as well. I attached a screen shot that shows this in action.

I will post another screenshot on how OSX lets you assign a color to a folder/ file. Our analogy: bookmarks folder/ bookmark.

Curious to hear your opinions on this idea!

Comment 18

[Mike de Boer [:mikedeboer]]

Attachment: finder label selection

Comment 21

[neo]

Are there any plans to implement this?

Comment 22

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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.