322840 - Add windows-standard hiding of bookmarks in menu

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269348

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Kenny MacLeod]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

This request was originally filed in bug 269348, requesting that unused bookmark menu entries be "hidden" unless explicitly requested.  That request was rejected, but I suspect the original poster just didn't describe it very well.  I believe he was referring to the standard Windows "collapsing menu" widget, where menu items that haven't been used for a time are removed from the menu, with a "double arrow" symbol indicating how to expand the menu back to full size.

The rationale for rejecting it was that it would be confusing.  However, this behaviour is standard across many Windows-based applications (including IE), and is genuinely useful.  Users are also used to this behaviour (on Windows, at least).

Of course, users can always just manually organise their bookmarks into folders, but this gives an automatic and easy way of improving the useability of the bookmarks menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Nope, it was definitely understood what behaviour was being requested.  As a note, I don't see this in XP SP2, either in the start menu or in IE, or an option to enable it.  Office has similar functionality, and that was labelled as a failure in design, and led to the massive rethink coming for Office 12...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 269348 ***