415803 - Bookmarks/organize bookmarks/sort by ---> sort not sticking after returning to main window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 250787

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ryan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11

If you click BOOKMARKS, then ORGANIZE BOOKMARKS, then VIEW, SORTED BY ______.  After closing out of Bookmark organizer, in the main Firefox window, clicking bookmarks shows bookmarks were not sorted or changed in any way.

You can drag and drop and this will stick, however VIEW/SORTED BY will not stick and sort bookmarks in the main window as it should.  This can be very frustrating as if you click PROPERTIES when the BOOKMARKS drop down, your only option is SORT BY NAME.  This means the only way of sorting bookmarks is to sort them, then drag and drop to a new folder (rather than just clicking SORTED BY and being done with it).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Click BOOKMARKS
2.  Click ORGANIZE BOOKMARKS
3.  Click VIEW
4.  Sroll down, select SORTED BY option
5   Click FILE, CLOSE, OR X to close out of BOOKMARK ORGANIZER
6.  At firefox main menu, click BOOKMARKS and not that bookmarks have not been sorted.
Actual Results:  
Bookmarks not sorted.

Expected Results:  
Bookmarks should be sorted by name, location, keyword, added, etc.

Comment 1

[Darlene Ford]

Try looking at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=370938

Comment 2

[cris]

is this by design? the sorting is a function that only in effect within BM for that session?