291906 - Expansion state of "bookmarks menu", "bookmarks bar" only remembered when switching to "History" or returning from webpage

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 293768

(Camino Graveyard :: Bookmarks, defect)

Description

[Martin Girschick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050424 Camino/0.8+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050424 Camino/0.8+

I moved all my bookmarks into the bookmark bar and as it seems the state of
unfolded folders is only remembered for the "Bookmark Menu" and not for the
"bookmarks bar". This is especially annoying when I open a link from the
bookmark menu and go back to the bookmarks to select the next one - I have to
reopen the folder again!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open bookmarks
2. Select Bookmark bar
3. click on any of the existing triangles to expand folder
4. click on "Bookmark menu"
5. Click on "Bookmark bar" again
Actual Results:  
The expanded folder is minimzed again

Expected Results:  
The expansion state should be remembered correctly and shown again.

If you switch to the history instead of the Bookmark Menu then the expansion
state seems to be saved correctly. Therefore I guess this is a bug within an
already existing functionality.

Comment 1

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Even stranger, if you go back/forward (even after switching to another
collection that doesn't remember after you switch back) from another page to the
BM, the expansion is suddenly remembered.

To simplify: the folder expansion for the book.bar and book.menu folders are
only remembered when switching to/back from History, not any of the other
collections, each other included, or when returning to the BM from another page.

History, the only other collection that has folders, remembers just fine.

See also bug 285447.  Updating summary, confirming and tentatively targeting for 1.0

Comment 2

[Martin Girschick]

An additional note: On my machine when I go back to the bookmark manager always
the Bookmark Menu collection is selected, even when I originally chose a
bookmark from the history- or the "bookmark tab-" collection.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

simon was talking about this for history, i agree it's annoying.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

History and Bookmaarks are different outline views with different data sources,
so state maintenance is implemented independently. We only have code for history
now. To main BM state, we need to save UUIDs in the bookmarks file.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 293768 ***