409188 - Search in bookmarks does not show/search folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196509

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Beat Kappert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Firefox 3 Beta 3.0b2

When searching for bookmarks I then want to know where this bookmark is stored in the hierarchy (in which bookmark folder). In other words: I want to locate the bookmark. In Eclipse you have a similar feature for locating an open file in the Package Explorer: "Link with Editor".
Also: I do not only want to search for bookmarks themselves but also for folder names.

I was a bit disappointed that these features did not make it into the new bookmarking system of Firefox 3. If not for better searching, for what else you need a databse? So I am making this enhancement request although the subject was mentioned before.

Mentioned elsewhere:
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Bookmarks_Use_Cases#More_on_Search
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406157
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292104

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to search for bookmarks
2. Enter a word that appears in a bookmarked URL
3. Try to figure out in which folder you have stored that bookmark
Actual Results:  
No information about the folder where a bookmark is stored.

Expected Results:  
If selected the bookmark should be located in the tree its position highlighted there.

Tell me where the bookmark is.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Sadly, filing a bug which is a duplicate of two different bugs doesn't actually do anything to cause either one to be fixed, it only takes up some time from someone triaging bug reports.