285514 - bookmark manager produce duplicate ones when importing from file

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Cong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Dear Mozilla Firefox developers,

First of all, thank you all for developing such a nice free browser to the users.

Here I encountered one thing that I feel need to be improved. Often users browse
at different pc's and they want to join the bookmars together from different
pc's, which to large extent, contain many same urls. By importing from the saved
single file 'bookmarks.html' under 'File' menu, the Firefox bookmark manager
simply puts all exactly the same bookmarks together, and I just cannot find a
way to delete the duplicate ones. May I know is there any way to remove these
duplicate bookmarks when two bookmark files containing many exactly same
bookmarks are joined into one? Thank you for your support.

Sincerely

Wangzuo


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Bookmark Manager
2. under "File" menu, import a bookmark file (normally 'bookmarks.html') into
the current one
3. all exactly the same bookmarks are there and cannot be removed

Actual Results:  
duplicate bookmarks, exactly the same, are in the same bookmark file.

Expected Results:  
user can remove these duplicate ones easily

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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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