277579 - Live Bookmarks can't be moved

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[M. LaPlante]

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

I'm surprised I couldn't find another bug for this (appoligies of I missed it).
 I see no reason that we can move regular bookmarks around but not live
bookmarks.  Specifically:

1) Live bookmarks cannot be drag and dropped to new locations/folders as
bookmarks can in the "Bookmarks" dropdown menu.
2) Likewise, live bookmarks cannot be moved in the "Manage Bookmarks" interface.  

I see absolutely no reason for this.  I have a custom folder for RSS feeds in my
bookmarks tab.  Unfortunately since many web pages require that I add the feed
manually via New Live Bookmark (paste URL), I have no way of adding the live
bookmark to my special RSS folder.  I have to manually edit the bookmarks.html
file in my profile to relocate it.  I should mention that manually cut and
pasting the location of the live bookmark in the html file works PERFECTLY well,
so I see zero reason it can't be done right in the interface like other bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Live bookmarks can be moved just fine in the bookmarks manager, and they can't
be moved in the bookmark dropdown since they are just like folders. Why do you
say they can't be moved? What happens when you try?

If you are referring to the items in the live bookmarks, meaning each individual
article or post. Those can't be moved because they represent the order the items
are in in the actual RSS feed. The items are constantly changing anyways (hence
the "live" in live bookmarks), so there would be no real point in being able to
move them.

Comment 2

[M. LaPlante]

No, I'm speaking about the live bookmark themselves.  As I stated above, I
cannot drag and drop any live bookmarks, and the "Move" option is grayed out in
the Bookmarks manager for any live bookmarks.  Any normal bookmarks and folders
both drag and drop, and "Move" just fine.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Any extensions installed that could interfere with that? Have you tried with a
clean profile?

Comment 4

[M. LaPlante]

I just deleted C:\Docs and settings\app data\mozilla and reopened Moz.  Added
one live bookmark to test.  Same thing, can't move it anywhere.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Well, then I don't know what the problem is then. You could try reinstalling
Firefox itself. Also, are you sure you can move regular bookmarks?

Comment 6

[M. LaPlante]

I just did a totally fresh install of the 1.0 release, with another new app data
directory.  Diff test bookmarks.  Same result; bookmarks move, live bookmarks do
not.  Maybe this was addressed after 1.0 was released?

Comment 7

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

No, the functionality was always there. I'm using 1.0 at the moment and it's
working just fine. I see no reason why it wouldn't work.

Comment 8

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

You can move live bookmarks in the bookmarks menu by pressing the shiftkey and
than move them

Comment 9

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

oddly enough, I had this happen, but reopening bookmarks manager worked, I can't
reproduce now, but I've been playing with transaction manager bustedness on
trunk so I dunno

Comment 10

[M. LaPlante]

If I press the shift key I just get that circle with a slash through it when I
try to move (the action is not allowed).  Again, only with live bookmarks.

Comment 11

[石庭豐 (Seak, Teng-Fong)]

Cyber Dog, those live bookmarks actually CAN be moved.  It all depends where you
are when you try to do so.

In fact, I came across the same problem at first and I thought it's a bug.  But
after some thinking, I understood that live bookmarks are more like folders than
bookmarks.  So, when you're using Bookmark Manager, go to the folder containing
the live bookmark that you want to move.  Then, inside the right pane, you COULD
move it.  Or you could open the Bookmark sidebar.  There, you could move it as well.

This "bug" is actually a problem of the way how Bookmark Manager works.  While
everything in the right pane is moveable, everything in the left pane is fixed,
thus this misunderstanding.  On the other hand, bookmark sidebar seems to be a
copy of the bookmark manager's right pane, so things can be moved.

Maybe this bug can be closed as invalid?

Comment 12

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 13

[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