282763 - enhance bookmarks manager to allow opening of another bookmarks file during the session

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

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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

Enhance the bookmarks manager under the 'file' menu to permit opening another
bookmarks file.  Netscape 4 had this capability.  

This is often useful for a variety of reasons: 
organizing very large bookmarks collections into separate files, editing a
bookmarks file without fear of corrupting the original, creating a bookmarks
file to be emailed to another user so a specific folder or set of bookmarks can
be sent without sending the entire original file.

Also, this would be a much easier way to change the bookmarks file location via
the UI instead of using about:config or the user.js file and would be MUCH less
error prone in regard to the users.


Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
functionality does not currently exist

Expected Results:  
add the new functionality described above.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

We removed this feature very early on and do not intend to restore it.

Comment 2

[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