267785 - "Bookmark this group of tabs" is missing from the bookmarks menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 300412

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[Gert-Jan Vons]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/1.0RC2

Firefox is missing mozilla's "bookmark this group of tabs" function; it is not
present in the bookmarks menu, and not in the tab-bar right-click menu either.

This is a big miss since there is no way to bookmark a group other than creating
the group by hand and to manually drag and drop every tab to it.

This is a real pain, and mozilla has had this function for ages now.

One use for this is searching for pages on a given topic and wanting to save the
result as a group.

Another use for this is to save the currently open group of tabs before closing
FF, in order to restore it later on. for example to shutdown/reboot the PC, or
when installing a new FF build.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the bookmarks menu or right-click on the tabs-bar
Actual Results:  
Neither the bookmarks menu nor the tab-bar right-click menu has a "bookmark this
group of tabs" entry.

Comment 1

[José Jeria]

You can find this option when you 
/bookmarks/bookmark this page...

then check the "bookmarks all tabs in a folder" checkbox

Comment 2

[Gert-Jan Vons]

Hmmm, indeed the option is there. However, that's not a very intuitive place,
you have to know about it.
Since I bookmark mainly by drag&drop of the URL, I can't remember when I last
used this dialog for creating a bookmark, I don't remember seeing this option.

I agree the functionality is there, but its accessibility can be improved IMHO.

Please re-open this report as an enhancement request for adding this function to
the tab-bar right-click menu and to the bookmarks menu.

Mozilla has this, and switching to firefox makes one wonder whether the
functionality has disappeared, since it cannot be found in the place where the
user will look first.

Comment 3

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

So, is the resultion of this bug right?

The checkbox in the Add Bookmark dialog has some issues:
  1. "Bookmark *this* page" doesn't give the user a clue about the option to
"Bookmark *these* pages, in a folder".
  2. One can assume the bookmarks are being added to the choosen folder in the
"Create in" field
  3. The proposed name is (mostly) useless, it should be an empty field (that is
what we do for "Add a keyowrkd for this search")

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

Should this be wontfix'ed, like bug 267785 ? (I didn't duplicate to that bug
because I saw mconnor, mpt and mano mentioned in the cc-list).

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** Bug 300751 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** Bug 300412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300412 ***

Comment 8

[Shriramana Sharma]

Excuse me, but if you mark bug A as a dup of bug B and bug B as a dup of bug A
then which is the original and which is the dup? See following:

------- Additional Comment #6 From Asaf Romano (use mozilla.mano@ for email)
2005-08-09 10:50 PDT [reply] -------
*** Bug 300412 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
------- Additional Comment #7 From Asaf Romano (use mozilla.mano@ for email)
2005-08-09 10:51 PDT [reply] -------
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 300412 ***

I need to know 'cause I want to add myself to the appropriate CC list.

And should the RESOLVED status be changed?