270618 - add a feature to collapse all open folders in the bookmarks sidebar like in Opera via button or context menu

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[b.reuschling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3
Build Identifier: 

When you activate the bookmarks side bar (CTRL+B), all folders are open by
default. To close all open folders, you have to click each folder to collapse
it. I wish that there is a button or a context menu entry to collapse all open
folders at once. Since there is already a "Collapse" context menu entry, perhaps
adding a "collapse all" entry below that wouldn't be much of a problem. Other
browsers have that too, but Firefox is my browser of choice and it would be
great if that feature would exist there as well.
Thanks in advance & keep up the good work!

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
All folders should be closed after the described action above.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[nakedpeanut]

Is this still a particular enhancement that needs to be resolved or is it in the latest Firefox release? ie 3.6?

Comment 3

[b.reuschling]

Thanks for getting back to this "issue" after all this time. 
I made the original request for a user that was migrating from opera to firefox back in the day. He used to have many bookmarks and was used to collapse them all in opera and was missing the same functionality in firefox. Since that time, he has used firefox as his primary browser and it is my understanding that he still does. With that in mind, I guess he can do without that feature being added to firefox. 
This means that you can close this "bug" and work on other more important stuff. 

Thanks again and keep up the good work with firefox!