291989 - Can't select multiple bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 260367

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Charles Loosen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

I am unable to select multiple bookmarks from the sidebar.  The appropriate
behavior should allow me to shift+select multiples or ctrl+select multiples.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the bookmarks sidebar
2. Attempt to select multiple bookmarks

Actual Results:  
Watch as the first bookmark you click on is activated and the browser opens that
page.

Expected Results:  
Holding ctrl or shift while selecting should suspend the browser from opening
the link and allow the user to select and then drag multiple bookmarks.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260367 ***

Comment 2

[Charles Loosen]

I've now read the discussion which took place with regard to bug #217472 that 
was made a duplicate of #260367.  Can anyone explain why #260367 has been 
marked as invalid, because the discussion certainly didn't seem to result in a 
resolution or agreement.

The issue many have reported makes the bookmarks sidebar useless as it has no 
more functionality than the bookmarks drop down menu.  Single click vs. double 
click as they relate to history and the sidebar need to be reexamined.  I have 
a very hard time understanding how and why this is considered a 
design 'feature' or non-bug as it severely hampers usability and therefore 
adoption of Mozilla.

Please just don't sweep this one under the rug.

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

It was marked invalid because it requested a change that directly conflicted
with a patch that was just checked in. [e-mail] on 2004-09-19
19:16 PDT marked the bug INVALID. I supose a wontfix would have been more
accurate. Mconnor is one of the lead developers in the Firefox project and he
saw fit to mark it invalid.

Comment 4

[Charles Loosen]

The issue seemed to center around whether or not the bookmarks would be 
handled as links or as files.  The bookmarks sidebar is both a list of links 
and a specialized file browser and therefore should incorporate a multiple 
bookmark selection feature.  Whether this is a matter of a design decision as 
Mconnor said or a patch conflict as comment #3 states, I would like to see it 
looked at again.

Comment 5

[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