325285 - Support multiple instances of the same URI in a single folder

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P1)

Description

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Right now we have a URL and bookmarks schema that looks sort of like this:

URL TABLE:

uri        ...        title    customTitle

BOOKMARK TABLE:

uri     folderid      parent     index

A uri can only appear in a given folder once, but I don't think there is any checking to prevent against this. 

The problem is that there are many user actions that as a result of our singleton-URI implementation approach work weirdly, despite the fact that the visual appearance we offer to users is that of a familiar folder hierarchy. 

e.g. see: bug 323812

The user is likely to want to perform various operations specific to a particular instance as long as the visual appearance is that of a folder. As a result I think we need to allow multiple instances of the same uri to be present at different indices within the same folder. I also think we need to move the "custom title" property from the URL table (where it adds dead weight) to the bookmarks table, which is where it is useful.

Comment 1

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Joe has some additional ideas about how better to handle tagging UI. 

Comment 2

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

Per discussion with Ben and Joe, we probably don't need this functionality.  -> WONTFIX

Comment 3

[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