375763 - Bookmarks scrabling when large filesize and bookmark manager is used.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Some name]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

So, my bookmarks file is ~2185 KiB.

I wanted to create a new folder and drag it to a section with other web-related folders, but when I opened the manager, which I've done multiple times before, (not with ver. 0.3 though), to change the order of the bookmarks by dragging and dropping the new folder to it's correct spot, all folders positions were scrambled.

Moving one folder in the bookmark manager now causes a random (even though I'm not sure it's a cryptographically secure random function :P) scramble of the bookmarks.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Surf like a maniac and bookmark everything! (important step! programmatic iterative data may not produce same result ;))
2. Make your friends gaze in awe at your big bookmarks.html file over 2185 KiB.
3. Start Firefox.
4. Open the Bookmarks manager.
5. Get annoyed at the bug.
Actual Results:  
What I described in the details, obviously.

Expected Results:  
Not scramble my bookmark folders...........!

Default theme, some extensions, mostly web developer extensions and the occasional ad block plus. Bottom-line is that I've had these extensions a long time without any problems such as described. The only new extension is Aptana debugger service 0.2.8.13677.

Kick-ass computer. Don't think this matters though :p

Comment 1

[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).