330596 - Implement "Sort By Name" functionality for Places views

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325342

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

In case you wanted to use that.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

*** Bug 330935 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Annie Sullivan]

A related user comment from the Alpha 1 feedback:
"About the only thing that irritates me about Firefox is that when I right click in Bookmarks > Information > *BOOKMARK* for example, and tell it to sort by name, it closes the whole menu down (it organises it fine) so I then have to keep going in for each folder to do it (something I dont have to do in IE)."

Comment 3

[Adam Kowalczyk]

(In reply to comment #2)

This is Bug 195031. It is quite irritating and I think it'd be great to fix it as part of improving Bookmarks for 2.0.

Comment 4

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

Just a note.
This only works in the main bookmarks. Bookmarks in subfolders cannot be sorted.
Also this bug still appears even when I compile firefox with --disable-places.
Also sorting bookmarks used to work in firefox 1.5.0.x

Comment 5

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #4)
>
Sort by name does not work here, neither in the bookmarks-menu nor in the bookmarks toolbar. The Places "Search by title" feature works fine however, if this is what you mean, but it is not permanent :)
"Sort by Name" works as expected in places disabled builds.

Comment 6

[Bryan]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Just a note.
> This only works in the main bookmarks. Bookmarks in subfolders cannot be
> sorted.

I am unable to sort any of my bookmarks in any of the views using "Sort 'X' by Name".  This worked flawlessly for me in FF 1.5.  We should really focus on fixing Bug 195031 as it's highly annoying and would certainly be a nice win for 2.0!

BUILD: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060418 Firefox/2.0a1 ID:2006041811

~B

Comment 7

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> "Sort by Name" works as expected in places disabled builds.

Nope, it does not work in my places disabled builds. It will only sort the main bookmarks. anything in a subfolder cannot be sorted.

Comment 8

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #7)
>
WFM

Comment 9

[Hussam Al-Tayeb]

Can somebody change the OS to all as this happens on linux as well?

Comment 10

[David A. Cobb]

I can verify that it doesn't work in Linux.  And the summary should be changed to say it JUST PLAIN DOESN'T WORK.  Anywhere.

Comment 11

[Vincent L]

Confirming that this bug is also in Mac OSX 10.4.

Suggest this be referred to Menus QA rather than / in addition to Places.

Comment 12

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #11)
>
Filed in the Places component because it only happens in Places enabled builds.
The bug is not present in trunk build without Places or branch builds. 

Comment 14

[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