410088 - View History by "Date and Site" Not Complete

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Bassam Abdul-Baki]

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: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

When viewing by "Date and Site", it would be nice if instead of viewing:

mozilla.com
  link
site1.mozilla.com
  link
site2.mozilla.com
  link

we could view it as:

mozilla.com
  site1 (folder)
    link
  site2 (folder)
    link
  link  (file)

Thanks,
Bassam Abdul-Baki

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to History.
2. Select "Date and Site" option.

Actual Results:  
See problem details.

Expected Results:  
See problem details.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

that would not be always correct, what is a "Site"? www1.mozilla.org and www2.mozilla.org are different sites? Would be complex to group that way.

Comment 2

[Bassam Abdul-Baki]

True, but I did not mean a site in the true sense.  So by your example, it would be nice to see it as:

mozilla.org
  www1
    links
  www2
    links

Each period (.) would be a "site".  If you wish to get fancy, you could make the last period (org), its own "site" as well.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

i did that example because many websites/services makes wise load balancing on subdomains like that, so the site is the same but served by different servers...

Comment 4

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

Per comment #3, subdomains sometimes have meaning, and sometimes not. It's not a reliable determinant of what constitutes a "site" -> WONTFIX.

What would be cool is if the treeview supported configurable groupings, so the user can come up with their own ways to slice this data into a hierarchy. The API used to support this, but it was limited.

Comment 5

[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