265415 - "sort by name" feature has no effect when clicked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 258692

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Gabriel Sassoon]

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

There appears to be no way to sort bookmarks effectively in Firefox. Not only
does "Sort by name" not work, but the bookmark management tool is unable to
successfully sort bookmarks as they will display in the bookmarks menu. Either
that, or I've gone crazy.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click "Bookmarks"
2. Right click over one of the bookmarks
3. Select "Sort by name"
4. Bookmarks remain unsorted

Actual Results:  
Bookmarks remained unsorted.

Expected Results:  
Sort the bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Ryan Polk (Quark)]

That's because in the Preview Release it sorts children, not siblings. 
Currently if you want to sort, go to the root folder and 'Sort By Name' there.

Firefox 1.0 will sort siblings.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 258692 ***

Comment 2

[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