269348 - auto hide unused bookmarks from browser's bookmarks menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Israel Ercia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

most have a big collection of bookmarks. and it would be too cumbersome to see
them all the time even menu items that are used very rarely. i suggest that
unused bookmarks (bookmarks not accessed for a certain number of days
(configurable)) be hidden from the bookmarks menu.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on bookmarks menu. (all menu items shown)
2.
3.



Expected Results:  
what it should do instead: hide those unused bookmark items.

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

This would be very confusing to the vast majority of users (items randomly
disappearing?).  You can place your lesser-used bookmarks in folders for
organization.  That said, this is a perfect place for an extension to step in
and automate that.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

*** Bug 322840 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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 5

[Israel Ercia]

IE has this feature and it's never confusing. when an item gets hidden, ALL items can be shown conveniently by pressing the double arrows at the bottom. 

usage scenario: i collect a lot of bookmarks of technical articles (say around 50). my list has gotten really long, but oftentimes i access only, say, 10. with this feature i see only those 10 that i keep coming back to, and any bookmark that doesn't get used just gets tucked away from sight. if ever i need to view all, i just click the double arrows at the bottom of the bookmarks list.

i really think other firefox users will love this feature. and if in case, somebody doesn't, then just turn off the feature through the options menu.

my last appeal :)

Comment 6

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Please don't reopen a bug just because you disagree: if you have new information that wasn't previously known and considered, it *may* be appropriate to add a comment asking that it be reopened, but in this case, you don't: the only new information since Vlad wontfixed it here, and Mike would have wontfixed bug 322840 if it wasn't a duplicate, is the way that Internet Explorer and Office have backed even farther away from this feature. It would be a fine extension, but not a fine core Firefox feature.