344531 - Import and Installer behaviour different for importing bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Maury Markowitz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060713 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060713 Minefield/3.0a1

When first installing Firefox beta, it offered to import my bookmarks (et all) from IE6. This process hung (I am not reporting that here) and when I ran Firefox I found that about 1/2 of my bookmarks had successfully been imported.

I then used the File->Import function to re-import them, and this time it worked perfectly.

HOWEVER, the original install placed the bookmarks in the "root" of the Bookmarks -- that is, the resulting bookmarks appeared directly in the menu. The Import function instead placed them all in a folder called "From Internet Explorer".

This is confusing behavior.

Reproducible: Always



Expected Results:  
Both the Installer and Importer should place the imported bookmarks in a single place -- I would personally prefer them to appear exactly where they did in IE (in my case, the "root" of the menu).

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

What version are you reporting a bug on? You say "Firefox beta" which ought to mean 2.0b1, but your UA says you are using a trunk pre-alpha.

Comment 2

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Bulk closing all UNCONFIRMED bugs dealing with places that haven't had any bug activity in over 120 days, have no votes, and are not enhancement requests.

If you are still experiencing this issue in Firefox 3.0 or later, please re-open the bug with steps to reproduce (if they were not part of the original comment).