318691 - repeated items in bookmarks after import

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

When starting up with a fresh profile, there are duplicated bookmarks in the "Firefox and Mozilla Links" folder.  This is not supposed to be able to happen, and will likely get us very confused.

Comment 1

[Brett Wilson]

Are you sure this is a bug in the implementation? I see two firefox start pages and two firefox store links, but the URLs are different (the start pages differ by an ending slash).

These are because the default_places.html and the bookmarks.html in a clean profile both specify these items. I probably copied an older version of bookmarks.html to get the default_places.html.

Comment 2

[Brett Wilson]

Attachment: Sync default_places.html with default bookmarks.html

Comment 3

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Comment on attachment 204808 [details] [diff] [review]
Sync default_places.html with default bookmarks.html

ah, that would explain it!

Comment 4

[Brett Wilson]

fixed on trunk

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv