280513 - Bookmarks menu drag-n-drop is non-standard, annoying UI

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[paul romanchenko]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041219 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I use firefox under Windows and Linux. Under Linux I can press mouse button in
the any submenu and without releasing button traverse to menu items. Under
Windows Firefox tries to do Drag-n-Drop for bookmarks, its very annoy me.
Indeed, when I need to rearrange my bookmarks I use menu "Bookmarks|Manage
Bookmarks...". (Thus, there is no way to rearrange toolbar buttons on the fly,
and I expect the same behaviour for bookmarks).

Reproducible: Always




I think, there must no be way to easy "destruct" user interface. Now it can be
done with Bookmarks drag-n-drop, so user feels umcomfortable (especially, when
accidently dragged bookmark (folder) drops in uneeded place).

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

This is a popular feature.  It will probably be added on Linux (bug 236606)
rather than removed on Windows.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We're not going to remove this.

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