268655 - Option to disable folder tree state memory in Add Bookmark dialog

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 228582

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Stasys Adiklis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I'd like an option to disable folder tree state memory in Add Bookmark dialog. I
want the tree to be collapsed every time i'm adding a new link.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Stasys Adiklis]

I'll elaborate a bit.

Sometimes tree state memory is usefull (when i'm adding related links to the
same folder). Yet, most of the time, i'm adding new link into a folder that's
different from the last addition. In such a case, with more than 600 folders in
my category tree, all those open branches just make navigation more confusing
and more scrolling intesive. Consequently, half of the activity while adding a
new bookmark involves closing uninteresting branches before opening the right one.

In short, this state memory feature does more harm than good for me most of the
time. 

So i'd like a "tree state memory" checkbox in ad Add Bookmark dialog.

Comment 2

[Stasys Adiklis]

Alternative ways to alleviate the problem could be:
1. "Collapse All" button in the dialog.
2. Option to make collapsing branches to collapse all of their subfolders
recursively (so that they lose their open/closed memory).

Comment 3

[Ryuichi KUBUKI]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228582 ***

Comment 4

[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