Closed Bug 285143 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Bookmarks: "open in tabs" clobbers existing tabs

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 216346

People

(Reporter: heywoodj123, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Using the "Open in Tabs" feature in Bookmarks clobbers existing tabs. For
example, if I have 10 tabs open and I go to a bookmark sub-folder that has three
bookmarks in it, and select "Open in Tabs" from that, the resulting window shows
just those three -- and the rest of the (already opened) tabs just get closed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a small number of bookmarks (say 2-3) in a separate folder under
Bookmarks.
2. Open a larger number of tabs in the browser (I had about 8-9 open).
3. Go to Bookmarks>TestFolder>Open in Tabs
Actual Results:  
The three bookmarks in the folder open as expected. However, all my other
(already opened) tabs are now gone! I didn't immediately bookmark all ten, so
now several of them are gone (until I dig up the source URLs again).

Expected Results:  
The three bookmarks in the folder should be opened in new tabs or a new window,
but they should definitely NOT close existing tabs. At worst, they can perhaps
override the first few tabs (2-3 in my example above) -- whose contents could
then be recovered by just browsing back -- but there's no reason do anything to
the rest of the already-opened tabs. 

In my prefs, I have tabbed browsing enabled and set to open links from other
apps in a new tab in the same window. I also have "select new tabs opened from
bookmarks or history" checked.

Leaving severity at "normal" for now until developers can have a look, but this
is a major pain in the rear. In fact this could justifiably be marked as high as
"critical," since a partially-filled form in a tab that gets closed in this
fashion could in fact cause data loss.
OS: MacOS X → All
Hardware: Macintosh → All

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216346 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
This bug is CRITICAL! - users loose their data.
Bug exists very long time (from v0.9 as I remember), but nobody bothers about
that :(
Assignee: vladimir+bm → nobody
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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