404542 - Add an option to sort bookmarks automatically according to the chosen criteria

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Andrés Delfino]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112003 Minefield/3.0b2pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b2pre) Gecko/2007112003 Minefield/3.0b2pre

Automatic Organization would allow to have bookmarks and folders sorted automatically.

Ideally, "Automatic Organization" should change sorting to have its own menu:

Sort
  |---By Name
  |---------------- (separator)
  |---Automatic Organization (check box)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Andrés Delfino]

Sorry, title should have been:

Add option "Automatic Organization" to bookmark sorting to have them automatically sorted.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

A duplicate of bug 404540 (or vice versa).

Comment 3

[Andrés Delfino]

Please read comments.

Comment 4

[Andrés Delfino]

This bug is about an option to tell Firefox to automatically sort the users' bookmarks, as explained in Description.

Comment 5

[Andrés Delfino]

The menu shown in Description would appear when right clicking a bookmark or folder. It's compatible with the menu shown in Description of bug 404540.

Comment 6

[[:Aleksej]]

Ah, I see. Changing the summary accordingly. Is this one OK?

Comment 7

[[:Aleksej]]

You can, of course, edit your own summary by clicking “edit” at the end of it.

Comment 8

[Andrés Delfino]

(In reply to comment #7)
> You can, of course, edit your own summary by clicking “edit” at the end of
> it.
> 

 I changed the "newly-added" part, since I'd like _all_ my bookmarks to be sorted automatically.

Comment 9

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Having an option to do this is WONTFIX, imo.

We should, however, probably be remembering a user's sort criteria automatically.

Comment 10

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

(In reply to comment #9)
> We should, however, probably be remembering a user's sort criteria
> automatically.

Filed bug 408776 to track.

Comment 11

[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