371005 - Store the referrer when bookmarking a page (for future reference)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 468710

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Ben Fowler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061022 Minefield/3.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20061022 Minefield/3.0a1

There are 38 Bookmarks bugs with RFE in the summary, of which around one 
third appear to me to be both relevant and worthwhile, but I don't see one 
that matches these two elements mentioned in Ned's blog.

1. The bookmark meta-data should include its source
2. The bookmark comment should be initialised to any selected text

nor,

3. The bookmark keywords should be initialised to the page's meta tags

The source could be the more specific of:

    a. The URL of the page I am one
    b. The referer sent with the request for that page

Adding a source field would mean changing the Bookmarks manager, and is 
perhaps going to need more consideration, but the other two look to be 
quite easy to implement.

Are there known barriers to enhancing the ability to locate bookmarked
pages, and do more with them when found?

See 
Bug 24829 "RFE: Store bookmarks as images, too..."
Bug 149253 "[RFE] search for meta tags in bookmarks"

See
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3615/ 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

"RFE" has been deprecated for years.  Search for and use severity:enh instead.

Comment 2

[Jesse Ruderman]

Bug 121093 ("ability to set referrer for bookmarks") is the same thing for Seamonkey.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

Oops, that bug is about forcing a bookmark load to send a referrer header, whereas this bug is about storing the referrer and letting you see it.  Builds with Places enabled might already do that.