333454 - Get rid of browser/locales/.../bookmarks.html

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Brett Wilson]

All the defaults should be in browser/locales/.../chrome/browser/places/default_places.html

Comment 1

[Brett Wilson]

*** Bug 332002 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

I doubt this is the way you want to do it, since you would have to write some magic into the importer so that a new profile got the default bookmarks and the default places names, while an existing profile only got the places names. Wouldn't it be simpler to have the places names in a .properites file, and have nsNavBookmarks::InitRoots just read it and create them directly, without going through an HTML importer? 

Comment 3

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

I don't think this is the way we want to do this. 

I discussed with Axel Hecht when he was in town a couple of weeks ago and we decided:

- to move default_places.html back to content and strip locales from it. it exists as a seed for the hierarchy _only_
- retain bookmarks.html as a way for localizers to provide default bookmarks.

Comment 4

[Brett Wilson]

OK, but there needs to be some way of making bookmarks.html not get put into new files. I filed bug 333479 for this.

Comment 5

[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