273129 - history sometimes swaps first and last elements

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Paul Brannan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616

I have my bookmarks grouped by day and sorted by last visited.  My sort order is
set to "A > Z sort order."  Sometimes I see the most recently visited link
listed first and the least recently visited link listed last, while all other
links are in order (top-to-bottom) of least recently visited to most recently
visited.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. visit a number of different pages from different sites
2. open the bookmark manager and close all the days except today
3. visit a page (we'll call it page1)
4. page1 will be listed at the top
5. visit another page (page2)
6. page2 should be shown at the top and page1 will now be at the bottom, where
it belongs.
   6a. page2 may be listed at the bottom; if it is, then continue visiting pages
until the most recently visited page is shown at the top and all other pages are
at the bottom.

Actual Results:  
The most recently visited link will be listed first and the least recently
visited link will be listed last.

Expected Results:  
Mozilla should NOT follow Matthew 20:16 ("the last shall be first, and the first
last"); instead it should list the sites in the order in which they were last
visited, from least recently visited to most recently visited.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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