330932 - Selecting bookmark from bookmarks menu loads previous selected bookmark

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 329337

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P2)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060318 Firefox/2.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060318 Firefox/2.0a1

This is the same as bug 330301 which is marked as dup of bug 329337. But the fix is only applied to the trunck while branch still has the same issue. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

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

Hi Josh, 

Do you have any ideas about how we can get a fix for this on the branch? 

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

Annie said she had a workaround at the Places level last time I talked to her (around the time I landed the patch on the trunk). Did that not work out?

Comment 3

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

Annie says she fixed this a couple of weeks ago. 

Comment 4

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Just tried "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060404 Firefox/2.0a1 ID:2006040406" and the issue is still there. So, no, it's not fixed.

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

I can confirm that it's not fixed on the branch.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060409 Firefox/2.0a1

In the main bookmarks menu (the one you pull down from the menubar), it will always load the url you selected in the next-to-last action. So the first time, you have to select twice. And when you then load a 3th one, you get the first url gain (from the second action.

Strangely enough, I don't see this behaviour in any of the submenus. And the 'bookmark memory' seems to belong to the main menu. After several attempts in the submenus, when I selected an url in the main menu, I still got the latest url-selection I did in the main menu, beforte I started to play in the submenus.

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

I also see a similar issue with non-browser windows - sometimes bookmarks menu items work on second access only. Josh, what's the reasoning behind not porting the orginal patch to the branch?

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 329337 ***

Comment 8

[Josh Aas]

It involved API changes to widget/public/nsIMenuItem.h

Comment 9

[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