409676 - Bookmarks Not Sorted When Asked To in Places Organizer (Firefox 3 Beta 2)

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[M Parker (mparker17)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121014 Firefox/3.0b2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121014 Firefox/3.0b2

When I attempt to sort my bookmarks from within the "Places Organizer", the changes are not reflected in the "Bookmarks Toolbar" or "Bookmarks" menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a few bookmarks with different titles to a folder
2. Open "Places Organizer" and navigate to that folder
3. Right-click on a bookmark; choose "Sort by Name"
4. Notice that "Sort by Name" is disabled!
5. Close "Places Organizer" and navigate to that folder using the "Bookmarks" menu or "Bookmarks Toolbar"
6. Notice that the bookmarks are not sorted by name

AND:

1. Add a few bookmarks with different titles to a folder
2. Open "Places Organizer" and navigate to that folder
3. Click the "Name" column header to sort the list by name
4. Close "Places Organizer" and navigate to that folder using the "Bookmarks" menu or "Bookmarks Toolbar"
5. Notice that the bookmarks are not sorted by name

AND: 

1. Add a few bookmarks with different titles to a folder
2. Open "Places Organizer" and navigate to that folder
3. Click the "Views" toolbar menu; choose "Sort", then "Sort by Name" to sort the list by name
4. Close "Places Organizer" and navigate to that folder using the "Bookmarks" menu or "Bookmarks Toolbar"
5. Notice that the bookmarks are not sorted by name
Actual Results:  
The bookmarks were not sorted by name after the places organizer was closed

Expected Results:  
There should be some way sort/order bookmarks

Theme: Default Firefox 3 Beta 2 Theme
Extensions: Default Firefox 3 Beta 2 Extensions
Computer: Apple Macintosh Macbook running Mac OS X 10.4.11 build 8S2167 with all O/S updates as of 2007-12-23 at 22:44 EST (04:44 GMT)

Although there is no "Sort by [...]" menu options for "Tags", "Location", "Visit Date", "Visit Count", "Keyword", "Description", "Added", or "Last Modified", clicking on those columns or using the "Views" toolbar button does not change the order in which the bookmarks are displayed after the "Places Organizer" has been closed.

I believe this to be a major bug because some users (such as myself) do not use the "Places Organizer" exclusively when navigating to their bookmarks. I typically use the "Bookmarks Toolbar" (and occasionally the "Bookmarks" menu) to navigate to my bookmarks. Having my bookmarks already sorted by name when going through the menus and folders makes finding things __much__ easier.

Comment 1

[M Parker (mparker17)]

This problem was also observed to exist under the Proto 0.8.2 theme for Mac Firefox.

Comment 2

[M Parker (mparker17)]

I have noticed that one can sort the bookmarks in the bookmarks sidebar, however.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add a few bookmarks with different titles to a folder
2. In the "View" menu, choose the "Sidebar" submenu and click the menuitem named "Bookmarks"
3. Right-click the folder, and click "Sort By Name"
4. Notice that the bookmarks are sorted by name

Expected Results:
One should be able to sort bookmarks using the Places Organizer as well as the bookmarks sidebar.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

The column sorts are not meant to apply permanently, those are view by sort options only.  This is INVALID.

Sort by name should work on folders, there's a bug on whether you should be able to sort by name when right-clicking on a child of the folder as you could in Fx2.

Comment 4

[M Parker (mparker17)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The column sorts are not meant to apply permanently, those are view by sort
> options only.  This is INVALID.

Forgive me, I suspected that the column sorts were not meant to apply permanently, but I included it anyway.

> Sort by name should work on folders, there's a bug on whether you should be
> able to sort by name when right-clicking on a child of the folder as you could
> in Fx2.

In my version of Firefox 3 (Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b2) Gecko/2007121014 Firefox/3.0b2), right-clicking on a child of a folder in the centre pane does not not work because the "Sort by Name" option is greyed out.

I did not notice this before, but right-clicking a folder in the left-hand pane and choosing "Sort by Name" does sort it's children as expected. Although that does seem a little bit unintuitive (to me, anyway), you are correct... the bug is invalid.

However, due to the possible unintuitive-ness of the interface, I would like to get your opinion on whether this bug be moved to a category under "User Interface" (or possibly added to the release notes) instead.

Sorry for the inconvenience, this is only the second bug I have submitted! I am still new to this.

Comment 5

[M Parker (mparker17)]

This is related to bug 400447

Comment 6

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

what is your qa-wanted request here?

Comment 7

[M Parker (mparker17)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> what is your qa-wanted request here?
> 

Forgive me, I should have mentioned that when I added the keyword. 

I was wondering whether this bug should be moved to a category under "User
Interface" (or possibly added to the release notes) instead. However, later on, I found bug 400447, which has a little more discussion on this. I added a note, but forgot to remove the keyword. It is fixed now.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Comment 8

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

no problem, thanks for following up. :-)

Comment 9

[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