361496 - Add and activate new sorting routine for URIs in password manager (and elsewhere)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 143472

(SeaMonkey :: Passwords & Permissions, enhancement)

Description

[Ulrich Windl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.0.6-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20060911 SUSE/1.0.6-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.0.6

The Password manager cannot sort the displayed items by URI. Sorting by URI would be desired.
A sorting routine for URIs would probably have to work backwards, maybe similar like the following Perl pseudo-code:

join('', reverse split(/\./, $a)) cmp join('', reverse split(/\./, $b))

That is first consider top-level domains, then sub-domains...

Conidering the amount of URIs accumulating in the password manager, a tree view where initially everything but the top-level domains are collapsed would be quite helpful as well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open Password Manager and see what we have now
Actual Results:  
A poor solution

Expected Results:  
A better solution

See details.

Comment 1

[Ulrich Windl]

Attachment: Sample screen-shot showing the problem

You'll see that sorting from the front (like "http" or "www") is not optimal.