295372 - Bookmarks manager sorting functions don't gets applied neither in bookmarks menu, nor in bookmarks sidebar, nor in bookmark toolbar personal folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 280509

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Simone Fittabile]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; it-IT; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Settings in bookmarks manager relative to sorting features (under View menu)
only works in its contest: ie. outside the bookmarks manager, everywhere there
is a list of the bookmarks (in the sidebar, the Bookmarks menu, the bookmarks
personal toolbar) actually they always remain unsorted (in the way one arrange
them by hand)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Bookmarks menu--> bookmarks manager
2.Sort the bookmarks in some way other than unsorted (ie View menu-->entry 4..10)
3.Look how bookmarks are ordered, now you can close bookmarks manager and look
at the order of bookmarks either in Bookmarks menu, or bookmarks sidebar, or
bookmarks' folder toolbar.
Actual Results:  
Indeed the bookmarks are unsorted as before 

Expected Results:  
Bookmarks would have been sorted the way one selected in bookmarks manager

Comment 1

[Gabriel Chadwick]

This work for me in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+ . Could you please test this in a nightly release
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ . Reopen if
it still does not work.

Comment 2

[Simone Fittabile]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This work for me in Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
> Gecko/20050524 Firefox/1.0+ . Could you please test this in a nightly release

Yes I tried it again on and on:
I keep getting the same nonfunctionality, tried the above steps on the Deer Park
1.0+ nightly build

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050525
Firefox/1.0+
WTF?!

Comment 3

[Gabriel Chadwick]

Could you try with a new profile http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

Comment 4

[Simone Fittabile]

Attachment: The rdf for firefox extensions in my profile folder

Comment 5

[Simone Fittabile]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Could you try with a new profile http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile

I've just created a brand new profile and started browser with it: I have to
reconfirm once more the same behaviour: I was beginning to think it was caused
by some extension mess, now I have got a try of it not being so (w/ new profile
no existing extensions nor themes)...

1 precisation: the sorting setting I apply to the bookmarks in the manager,
actually remains from session to session, in the sense that if e.g. I applied a
order by Last Visit Ascending, then close bookmark manager, exit firefox, and
relaunch it, reopen bookmark manager, I would find it again set as I did. Note:
this occurs even from session to session w/ different profile!
<It clearly shows up that in my very case the settings stored for the bookmark
manager sort feature aren't read anyway by main bookmark function: or at least
to be precise, the only thing that is correspondent between the 2, is the
unsorted way in which I drag&drop items manually (that only setting do last).


*There is not really any one who could confirm the behaviour I noticed?*

Comment 6

[Simone Fittabile]

> this occurs even from session to session w/ different profile!
I beg your pardon, this one is not true at all, I wrongly checked it! Every
profile keeps its bookmark manager's settings.

Comment 7

[Don McIntyre]

(In reply to comment #6)
> > this occurs even from session to session w/ different profile!
> I beg your pardon, this one is not true at all, I wrongly checked it! Every
> profile keeps its bookmark manager's settings.

I am not a programmer and have no idea how to fix this, I am merely reporting a
problem. I have this same problem: Apple iBook, using Mac OS 10.2.4 and Firefox
release 1.0.5

Don McIntyre
[e-mail]

Comment 8

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** Bug 306205 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[John Wood]

Has anyone found a solution to this yet?  The fact that the folders are not sorted A-Z in the Bookmarks menu makes the whole thing unmanageable as far as I'm concerned. 

Comment 10

[fritz.mielert]

ASSERT: invalid insertion index
Stack Trace:
0:PlacesMoveFolderTransaction(5,3,0,25,-2)
1:PC_makeTransaction([object Object],text/x-moz-place-container,25,-2,0)
2:PCDH_onDrop([object XULElement],[object XULElement],object InsertionPoint(folder:25,index:-2,orientation:0)])
3:VO_onDrop(23,0)
4:invokeDragSession([object XULElement],[xpconnect wrapped nsISupportsArray],[xpconnect wrapped nsIScriptableRegion],7)
5:([object MouseEvent],[object XULElement])
6:onxbldraggesture([object MouseEvent])

Comment 11

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 363299 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Landon Curt Noll]

It would be nice if the functionality of Sort Bookmarks 0.7.0.1 as described in http://www.oregontechsupport.com/support/2006/11/sorting_bookmarks_in_firefox.html and found in http://www.oregontechsupport.com/xpi/sort_bookmarks-0.7.0.1-fx.xpi were available in standard firefox.  This would fix these bookmark sorting problems.

Comment 13

[Landon Curt Noll]

This bug should have the OS changed to ALL, the Version to 2.0 Branch, and the Status to Confirmed because it has been verified under Linux, OS X 10.4, 10.3, NetBSD, Solaris for both the 1.5 branch and the 2.0 branch.

Also see bug #363294 and bug #363299.

Comment 14

[Aaron Racine]

I can reproduce this.  The newly sorted order stays the same in the bookmarks manager after closing and re-opening it, but the order of bookmarks in the bookmarks menu never changes as a result of the 'View' menu item selection in the bookmarks manager.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/2007051502 Firefox/2.0.0.4

Comment 15

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

As bug 280509 says, it's not "sorting", it's "view by". That means it's not rearranging the bookmarks, but just showing you a different view of them.