267304 - Failed RSS feed bookmarks should provide link to original site

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041016 Firefox/0.10.1

If there's a problem with an RSS bookmark, the normal menu list showing the
various RSS items is replaced with one which says "Live Bookmark feed failed to
load." If you click on this bookmark, nothing happens.

Instead, this should link to the original site from which the feed came. (Or, a
second menu entry should appear with this option.)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a failed RSS feed
2. look at the resulting menu item 
3. click on it

Actual Results:  
Nothing

Expected Results:  
Taken to the source of the broken RSS feed

Alternately, there could be an option at the bottom of the menu, right above
"Open  in Tabs", which would say "Visit Feed Home", and this option could always
be there.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is not a Mozilla Suite bug, please change the Product to Firefox. 

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

-->NEW, at least until someone has to WONTFIX it. This strikes me as more
reasonable than the rest of the "put the site link somewhere" bugs, if we can
manage it without being too confusing.

There will be feeds for which there is no /channel/link, that won't have a site
link no matter what.

Telling a naturally empty feed (GMail with no new messages) from, say, an RSS
1.0 feed with no items because the items Seq is messed up, may not be possible
to always get right.

We'd need somewhere to stick the /channel/link from one time to the next, since
we currently don't even know what it is, successful parse or not. Once we start
persisting that, people are going to want UI to change it, to add it while
bookmarking, and to have it always display. The good part is, if Firefox parses
it and persists it, the rest can be answered with "write an extension."

Comment 3

[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 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We put the site link in the feed now.