39418 - Personal Toolbar Names not preserved

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: RDF, defect, P3)

Description

[Jason Heard]

Platform:  Both Windows 98 and Linux, many milestone builds.

Steps:
1. Add a bookmark with a URL to your bookmarks.

2. Using a text editor, copy it to the personal toolbar folder, but rename it 
so it'll fit (i.e. "Slashdot:News for Nerds" to just "Slashdot").

3. Open Mozilla.

Expected:
Bookmark is on personal toolbar with short name.  Bookmarks file is not altered.

Actual:
Bookmark on personal toolbar has exact same name as first bookmark.  Viewing 
the bookmarks file with a text editor after closing Mozilla reveals that the 
name is changed there too.

This seems to show that Mozilla stores the bookmarks internally based on URL, 
so duplicate URLs with different names crunch each other.

This bug seems to only be a problem for the personal toolbar, if you have three 
bookmarks, two normal ones and one in the personal toolbar, the name of the one 
on the personal toolbar will change to match the first occurance while the 
second bookmark will retain its name.

Jason

Comment 1

[Chris Waterson]

here's that Hard Bug we were always afraid of.

Comment 2

[Robert John Churchill]

Same URL, same name. Welcome to the fun/scary world of RDF. Marking WONTFIX.

Comment 3

[Jason Heard]

What is RDF?  

Comment 4

[Tom Everingham]

resource description framework

verified wontfix