265401 - multiple keywords open multiple bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[nrlz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I propose that multiple bookmarks can have the same keyword AND (consequently) a
bookmark can have multiple keywords.

The advantage is I can have 1 keyword that searches multiple sites at the same time.

e.g.,

"books <keyword>"
Can do a search on eBay, Barnes&Nobels and Amazon at the same time and load them
in separate tabs.

Consequently, bookmarks will then need to support multiple keywords so that I
can still search that one site by itself or along with others.

e.g.,
http://www.amazon.com
Keyword: amazon, books

"amazon Harry Potter" -> Amazon only
"books Harry Potter" -> All engines

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

-> FF

Comment 2

[nrlz]

I should maybe post about how I came up with this suggested feature. A sort of
problem scenario, if you will:

There was one time I was going to add a bookmark to a new website I just visited
and I was going to assign it a keyword (e.g., "europe"). But I wasn't sure if I
had already used that keyword before (since I assign keywords to all the
frequent sites I visit). So I thought to myself that if I add a duplicate
keyword, I would for sure get an error message. So I went ahead and used the
keyword "europe" and clicked OK. Then I typed in that keyword in the address bar
but then the wrong site came up. And that was when I realized that the keyword
was already used. And at that point I came up with the idea that since I
assigned the same keyword to two different bookmarks, then those bookmarks must
be closely related somehow in content, and so using the same keyword should open
both bookmarks.

Comment 3

[nrlz]

-> changed summary

Comment 4

[Kevin Brosnan]

See also see Bug 68384 in the Mozilla Suite.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Not really something Joe User would ever use

->WONT

(this is something for an extension)

Comment 7

[nrlz]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Not really something Joe User would ever use
> 
> ->WONT
> 
> (this is something for an extension)

If keyword searches aren't useful to Joe User than why are keyword searches included in Firefox by default? This would be useful to Joe User as much as the existing keywords feature is useful to him.

Comment 8

[murali dharan]

I do not agree with this resolution. 
> Not really something Joe User would ever use
is not a valid argument. Why is http://del.icio.us/ so popular?
as people add more entries to their bookmarks, they want the ability to search the collection of their bookmarks in an efficient way. This is a straightforward request, nothing mysterious. 

Also look in: 
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bookmarks_Use_Cases#Multiple_Keywords
(i did not add this entry by the way). Seems like more people are interested in this enhancement. I will vote for this enhancement and will try to rally some support for this enhancement.

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

[member]

Why on earth would this be marked as WONT FIX?

WTF is wrong with you people?

Comment 11

[member]

When the user makes duplicate bookmarks with different keywords there is no indication that changing the keyword of one bookmark will change the keyword of all the other bookmarks with the same URL, leading to obvious frustration and confusion. (e.g. "Why did my other bookmark keyword that I didn't change at all suddenly stop working?")

Please properly support multiple keywords for the same URL.

The user should be able to:

a) have a comma-separated list of synonymous keywords for a single bookmark

and

b) have multiple bookmarks, each with the same URL but with different keywords 

For an example of how an ordinary user would come across this:

For example, if you have a longer keyword for a site e.g. "wiki" for wikipedia and then you find you use it a lot so you create a shorter version ("w") but you still want the old one to work too because you still have muscle memory for it. Or perhaps you have a shared account used by many people and like to add a second way to use a keyworded bookmark. There's really no reason it shouldn't work except that Firefox is buggy.

Another example is that maybe I'd like to encourage someone to use this feature but I won't because it's buggy and has hidden gotchas.

It is a bug

Please don't be so arrogant as to think users won't come across it.

Comment 12

[member]

12 years of refusing to fix a bug.

Why am I using Firefox?