403497 - Smart Bookmarks and other Places folders are not (should be) automatically renamed when language version / locale is changed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b1) Gecko/2007110904 Firefox/3.0b1

Steps to reproduce: 
-> Install the DE Firefox 3 Beta 1 RC
-> The Places Toolbar Folder with recently starred pages etc is named as "Orte" and the descriptions are in german
-> Install the en-US Firefox 3 Beta 1 RC
-> The places toolbar folder is still named "Orte" and not "Places" also the descriptions in the Places toolbar folder are still german

So the Places Toolbar Folder stays in the language of the first installation. There is no modification when a other language is installed and replace the first language.

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

If these were static items that could not be removed by the user, I'd consider this a bug. However, these are transient items that can be modified in any way (moved, renamed, deleted, etc), so the items might not even be identifiable or even exist at the point of the locale change.

A workaround would be to delete the browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion pref. This will cause these items to be recreated in the current locale.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv