280401 - bookmark menu should have several different columns to avoid scrolling around

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Deleted User]

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

Many people have so many bookmarks that up and down arrows for scrolling appear
in the Bookmarks menu. The bookmark menu should allow for several different
adjacent columns (like for example the Windows XP "Start -> All Programs" menu)
so that scrolling up and down is avoided. Scrolling takes time, and having
several adjacent columns would be more practical. Of course one can avoid this
"problem" by just making many many different folders within the Bookmarks menu,
but some people have so many different bookmarks that this is simply unfeasible.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[M. LaPlante]

I fully agree, this would be a valuable feature.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[M. LaPlante]

killing the bot

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Yep , and people with a 800x600 who can't organise their bookmarks will start
complaining that there whole screen is covered byy bookmarks.

WONTFIX

Comment 5

[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 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Are there still people with a 800x600 screen?

Comment 8

[M. LaPlante]

Yes.  Believe it or not, not everyone uses the same cutting edge technology that software developers have.  If that answer isn't good enough, I've seen plenty of older folks (and I don't mean elderly) who prefer low resolutions simply because it makes the screen easier to see.

Comment 9

[Igor Velkov]

Now there is netbooks with 800 and 600 pixels in heigh. This option will very useful for non-huge-desktop-monitors.

Please, reopen