380717 - Bookmarks: Sort by Name but respect separators

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 262329

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Stephen Martindale]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.3 (Ubuntu-feisty)

The existing "Sort by Name" function should be duplicated and modified to respect separators. By this, I mean that bookmarks between separators should be sorted amongst themselves only and remain between the separators, which should not be removed.

The existing functionality deletes all separators within the current context and sorts the real items as one big group - introducing chaos.

The new function should use the separators to "group" the items within the context, sort each group independently and then append the groups together with single-separator divisions. (only extraneous separators should be deleted)

The new function should be provided as an option in addition to the existing one. (I suggest a menu item named "Sort by Name (respect separators)")

I have investigated the implementation of "Sort by Name" and I am willing to develop this new feature as my first bug. It's fairly elementary (based on my investigation) and it is a feature that I would use myself. This makes it a good point of entry into the Mozilla Firefox project.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Take a look at the bookmarks feature.
Actual Results:  
The lack of this feature is clearly obvious.

Expected Results:  
N/A

As I said, I'm interested in contributing this change as my first code-contribution to Firefox.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

I think it's too late to bring new features in Firefox 2. 
Firefox 3.0 will have Places: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Places

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Which is where someone has already moved the existing sort-between-separators bug.