308203 - Inconsistent state after changing the URL of a live bookmark

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259526

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Davor Cubranic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

After right-clicking a live bookmark and changing the URL in its properties box,
the box shows the new URL, but the bookmark manager still shows the old one.
Furthermore, the bookmark really still uses the old URL.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right click on a live bookmark and select Properties
2. Change the URL
3. Open the Bookmark Manager: the old URL is still shown
4. Open the bookmark's properties: the new URL is shown

Comment 1

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050907 Firefox/1.4

Confirming that this issue exists in 1.5 Beta 1. As a matter of fact, I have not
yet figured out how to make bookmark manager update itself. Changing the name
didn;t work, nor did adding other bookmarks. Even a restart of firefox does not
update the list. I'm guessing that you currently have to delete the live
bookmark and add it back in order to get things looking right. This is
definitely not desired behavior.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

One issue to a bug is always a good idea: most of what you are reporting, that
the bookmarks manager shows a useless and unchanging field for livemarks, is bug
259526. The "really still uses the old URL" I could only reproduce as "looks
like it does until the first refresh" so I filed bug 308240 on that part.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259526 ***

Comment 3

[Davor Cubranic]

Well, to me the two looke simply like two sides of the same coin. That is,
because the Properties dialog didn't update the URL, the bookmark manager showed
still the old URL and the feed wasn't updating. I tried refreshing, but that
does not seem to work. So I don't see the behaviour you logged in bug 308240
(the new URL I use is a valid RSS feed, by the way). But if triage thinks this
really is two bugs, I'm fine with that.