331727 - Ability to create livemark from right-click on link to feed URI

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 255637

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Joe Hughes]

In m.feedback, a user requested the ability to right-click on a feed link and create a live bookmark from there.  (Might be hard to do without the target page loaded, though.)  Here's the original message:

Name:    George P Boutwel
Email:   george.boutwell_at_gmail.com
Product: Bon Echo
Summary: 2.0a1 Feedback

Comments: 
I downloaded and installed firefox 2.0a1, I don't know how I ever lived
without the close box on the tabs...  That's just awesome, kudos to the
develoers.  I like the RSS subscription support (sorta - see below).  In
general I'm able to do the same daily browsing I did with Firefox
1.5.0.1 in Bon Echo without issue.  Of course I have trouble with
Places, RSS feeds/Live bookmarks (it is alpha though).

Some things to look at (ie feedback) (I haven't dug in to see if these
are already reported bugs or not):

1) Delete, seems like I wasn't able to delete anything in the Place
dialogs.  I think trying to delete even at one point threw an assertion
error.  Sorry I'm not able to duplicate it.  If I come acrossed it
again, I'll try to get duplicatable steps.

2) RSS feeds/Live Bookmarks don't seem to work for some web-sites like
securityfocus.com

3) Having the ability to add an Live Bookmark/RSS feed, from the
righ-click on a link would be AWESOME!

4) Import/Export RSS feeds/Live Bookmarks would be good.  It's would
give me the best way to test a lot of my RSS feeds and how 2.0 will
handle them.  I'd especially like to see OPML files supported.

6) On RSS Feeds/Live Bookmarks, an property that controls how many
articles/entries show in the drop down would be great..  Especialy when
you couple that with Open in Tabs.

That's I think all I have for the moment.

Gerat work and look forward to nightlies with fixes, and any other alphas.

Browser Details: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060321 Firefox/2.0a1

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That would be bug 255637, wontfix in favor of (roughly speaking) bug 324588, because there's no way to say what's a link to a feed without loading it, at which point you have bug 324588. Once the "API" to add a Live Bookmark starts to feel stable-ish, I'll update my workaround-extension, for those that really feel the need to have the option on any link, to a feed or not.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 255637 ***

Comment 2

[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