365579 - bookmark with *only* name is gone after exiting and restarting firefox (even 3.0 20061231)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Kishore Balakrishnan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20061231 Minefield/3.0a2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20061231 Minefield/3.0a2pre

It is possible to create bookmarks with *only* name. But these are gone when firefox is exited and restarted

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable bookmarks toolbar
2. create a folder todo
3. position cursor on this folder
4. press right-mouse button and select option "new bookmark"
5. create bookmark with *only* name like "buy: milk"
6. create a few more like "be a TEDster"
7. check that these bookmarks are visible in the todo folder
8. exit firefox
9. restart firefox > the bookmarks are gone !
Actual Results:  
bookmarks with *only* name are deleted after firefox is exited and restarted

Expected Results:  
bookmarks with *only* name should exist

this bug should be corrected to maintain to do lists..

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Because bookmarks without an address are not valid bookmarks I think.
Why not just a link to a text file or an extension like Quicknote?

Comment 2

[Kishore Balakrishnan]

Yes, I could see that just entering the same name in the location field solves the issue

But it is more usable if it is just enough to enter the name..

Comment 3

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

This is an interesting usage pattern for bookmarks. FYI, reporter, the included URL is timing-out for me.

Comment 4

[Kishore Balakrishnan]

(In reply to comment #3)
> This is an interesting usage pattern for bookmarks. FYI, reporter, the included
> URL is timing-out for me.
> 

reg. the timing-out issue. The web host was down @ at that time ! Please check again..

Comment 5

[Jack Greenfield]

Adding a description of the "bookmark" will hold it in place.

Comment 6

[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).