419499 - Bookmarks lose their tags when moved to different folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 415389

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Topher Hunt]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020513 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020513 Firefox/3.0b3

I have several bookmarks tagged as "To Read". When I reorganize my bookmarks in the bookmarks library (which is slow because I cannot drag-and-drop bookmarks onto folders for some reason), the bookmarks lose their tag association.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create bookmark with a tag.
2. In the bookmarks library, select this bookmark and CTRL + X to cut.
3. Select a new folder in the bookmarks library, then press CTRL + V to paste. Observe that the associated tag has been lost.
Actual Results:  
The tags were no longer present.

Expected Results:  
The tags would ideally be preserved on cut and paste and moving around of bookmarks.

I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy on an Inspiron 1520 laptop. I don't know if that makes any difference. Noticeably the bookmarks library also has other problems, and I haven't tested whether Firefox 3b3 has these problems in other operating systems as well.

Comment 1

[Aleksei Perepelkin [:chaos]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022504 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Can confirm.

But this isn't happening when drag'n'droping bookmark into other folder

Comment 2

[Joe Smith]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008022611 Minefield/3.0b4pre

Can also confirm on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Alpha 5.

Comment 4

[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