409391 - cancel button missed when modifying a bookmark by clicking on the star button

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 403699

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Rudolf Krist]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121120 Firefox/3.0b2

When I click on the star button in the address line and the URL is already bookmarked, and then accidently replace a long title of the bookmark by another text, I have no chance to cancel this modification. I only have two options: delete or accept the change. That is not really user friendly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go tho the example url http://it.slashdot.org/it/07/12/21/0744259.shtml
2. click twice on the star button to bookmark the url
3. select a folder where to store the bookmark > save the bookmark
4. click again on the star
5. replace the bookmark title by "bla"
Actual Results:  
there is no chance to cancel the modification of the bookmark title
there are only two options the user can select:
 (a) delete the bookmark
 (b) save the wrong title of the bookmark
when I want to restore the title I have to re-write it

Expected Results:  
a cancel button should be available to cancel the modification of the bookmark when something went accidently wrong

similar old bugs:
UNCONF  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395172
WONTFIX https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396513
WONTFIX https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403699
INVALID https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404560

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Yes, WONTFIX in previous bugs means it won't be fixed. This is by design. A primary developer filed the bug and WONTFIX'ed the bug I am duping this one too.  

Comment 2

[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