279433 - selection disappears when search term in bookmark search is removed

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tilo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; de-DE; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041122 Firefox/1.0

Selection of a single bookmark in the search results of bookmarks (inside the
bookmark manager) disappears after search term in bookmarks search field is
removed. In Mozilla 1.x, this happens only when the selected bookmark was hidden
in a closed folder. Because of this bug and that bookmarks can not be deleted
from the list of search results it is very difficult to assess a bookmark in
large bookmark lists for removal.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to bookmark manager
2. enter a word in the search filed
3. select one item
4. remove the word in the search field

Actual Results:  
list of all bookmarks appears without any selected item

Expected Results:  
list of all bookmarks wiht the selected item shown in the list

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Ken Winiecki, Jr.]

I can reproduce this problem.  The usefulness of bookmark manager search is
severly limited without persistent selection.  Persistent selection is necessary
in order to manipulate the selected items, or to locate physically or
chronologically adjacent but unidentified items.

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 4

[Ken Winiecki, Jr.]

Still exists.

Comment 5

[Aaron Racine]

I was able to reproduce this.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/2007051502 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Comment 6

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

I'll confirm this. Tested with 2.0.0.4 and latest trunk. See also Camino-specific bug 338558.

Comment 7

[Ken Winiecki, Jr.]

This bug still exists in 3.0.  Affects both Bookmarks sidebar and Bookmarks manager ("organizer").  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021906 Firefox/3.0.7

Comment 8

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.