265754 - Add base link to live bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 251491

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[zenervation]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.9.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041013 Firefox/0.9.0

It should be possible to add a 'base link' to a live bookmark - a link that you
click which takes you to the page the RSS feed is for. E.g. I create a Live
bookmark for the RSS feed at slashdot. I could then add a link which will always
be at the top of that live bookmark pointing to www.slashdot.org, with a
separator in between that and the entries.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
Make a live bookmark

Actual Results:  
Can only define name/location for bookmark.

Expected Results:  
Asked for a 'base link'

This could be done by changing the 'OK' button in the create live bookmark
prompt into a Next button. The next page would have a prompt to either add a
base link or complete the bookmark. The page & name for the 'base link' could be
taken from the page that you added the livemark from, if you used the orange button.

Adding base links to an already present live bookmark could be handled by right
clicking on the live bookmark and having an 'Add base link' option in the menu.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

discovering the "base link" is problematic in that the correct base link is not
always clear.  Merely grabbing the domain is not sufficient.

Also, anything that turns a dialog into a wizard is not going to happen.

Comment 2

[zenervation]

The <link> tag in the RSS could be used if #251447 is implemented. Otherwise,
the page that the user was on when they created the livemark could be used.

Turning a dialog into a wizard was just an idea - the dialog could be made
larger with the new stuff underneath, or the 'base link' part could be
shown/hidden in the dialog (like the up/down arrow next to the 'choose location'
drop down list in the add bookmark dialog).

Comment 3

[Vojtech Semecky]

Yes, this is very good idea! I speak for this enhacement.

Comment 4

[Daniel]

Another option is to turn the folder part of the live bookmark into a bookmark
for its homepage.  It could be user setable or get the homepage from the <link>
tag in the rss feed.

Comment 5

[Jason Bennett]

Daniel's idea is what I was looking for when I found this bug. If I have Ars
Tech as a live bookmark, and I click on the folder instead of drilling down to
the individual stories, I'd like that to take me to the homepage.

Comment 6

[zenervation]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251491 ***

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