275678 - Please enable Epiphany-style bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Keith Bissett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1

It would be great if the bookmarks could be changed from a standard heirarchical
folder system to one like Epiphany uses, or at least if it could be made an option.

Thank you.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

What's different with epiphany?  Looking at the version I have installed it
looks quite similar to our bookmarks impl.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

reproter failed to explain
INVA

Comment 4

[Keith Bissett]

I originally replied on 24/12/04, but that was by email so the comment system
appears not to have picked it up.

--
Epiphany folders are similar to Firefox folders, but they are non-heirarchical.  

For example, lets say I have bookmarked a site containing tutorials for Blender.
 In Epiphany, I would tick the "Tutorials", "Free", "Art", & "3D" keyword plus
add and tick a new "Blender" keyword.

Under a heirarchical bookmark system such as that used by Firefox, I have to
figure out whether the bookmark should go under my "Free Software" folder, my
"Art/3D" folder or my "Art/Tutorials" folder (for example).  Then, a month later
I have to REMEMBER which one I filed it under.

In Epiphany, I can type any one of those into the address bar and all sites
matching that keyword would be listed.  Each keyword also appears as a folder
under the bookmarks menu.

I believe Epiphany is also working on implementing the following features (which
I believe Firefox should also include):

(a) The ability to type multiple keywords (and thus display just bookmarks that
fall within the intersection of categories)
(b) If I go to the bookmarks menu and select (eg.) "Art" it will display all the
categories that have bookmarks intersecting with it.  eg.  I can get to the
Blender Tutorial Bookmark via "Art"->"Tutorials"->"3D", or
"Tutorials"->"Blender" or any combination of keywords.

Heirarchical structures are great for a lot of things, but they're a pain to use
for any set of things that fall within multiple categories (eg. bookmarks) and
they don't add any value that I can see.  It'd be great if the order of the
categorisation was irrelevant.

Thanks.

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Too geeky (no offence), I doubt Joe User would ever use it.
Extension material (wait till 2.0 when bookmarks will probably be stored in a
database instead of a single file)

->INVA

Comment 6

[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