421408 - Expand import options in File>Import to match those in Library import

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Vesna]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030607 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008030607 Minefield/3.0b5pre

File -> Import: add possibility to import bookmarks from file

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

There are options to import from file in Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks -> Import and Backup, but maybe there should also be an option in File -> Import, like in Internet Explorer, because people expect it there.

Comment 2

[Mike Lierman]

Sounds like a GREAT idea. However we are too far in to Firefox 3 to add now. We will plan for a future version of Firefox to have this ability.

Thanks for your help in making Firefox the best it can be!!
-Mike

Comment 3

[Vesna]

(In reply to comment #1)
> There are options to import from file in Bookmarks -> Show All Bookmarks ->
> Import and Backup, but maybe there should also be an option in File -> Import,
> like in Internet Explorer, because people expect it there.
> 
I was expecting this feature there because of title "Import".
If this import allows import from browsers, why not from file?
It's logically. I'm not using IE.

Comment 4

[Vesna]

And it was my first confusing in FF3
when I tried to import my bookmarks from file.
When I didn't find this feature in "File->Import" I thought that it is impossible yet (in beta version). And some my friend said me that this feature exists in "Show All Bookmarks" where I didn't saw because of I hadn't any bookmarks in browser at that moment.
So, it is a question of usability.

Comment 5

[Vesna]

Thank you for your efforts to improve Firefox!

Comment 6

[Mike Lierman]

I had the idea of combining the two dialogs and have them call the same thing. So that a dialog will open and ask where to import from you can choose a previous browser like Internet Explorer or Opera then down at the bottom there should be another option with something like "Import bookmarks from file" or "Import profile from file" (and it will read zip files?).

That's my concept on how this might work.

Comment 7

[[:Cww]]

Um, quick question: how is this different from the import option from the Library?  Open the library with Bookmarks > Show all bookmarks then click import.

Comment 8

[[:Cww]]

Oh, I can't read wow.  Ok, I'm relabling this.

Comment 10

[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

Comment 11

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

afaik File/Import has already been moved to Library/Import and Backup menu.