422313 - Leaving the quick bookmarks on Unfiled Bookmarks makes them hard to discover

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 405487

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030714 Firefox/3.0b4

The new way to add bookmarks to Firefox, using the star on the location bar, probably has the potential to be the most used method for adding a bookmark. The problem is that it only adds the bookmark on the "Unfiled bookmarks" folder, which is not shown on the Bookmarks menu. It then becomes very hard for the user to find that bookmark again, unless he has a good understanding on the interface and the new Library.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on the star to add a bookmark
2. Consider how an unexperienced user will have trouble finding it again


Expected Results:  
The usability of this feature should be reconsidered, specially thinking on the terms of discoverability and learnability. There are lots of better alternatives. My personal suggestion goes on changing the "Unfiled bookmarks" folder name to "Quick bookmarks", or "Starred pages", and adding it as an entry to the Bookmarks menu, along with the "Mozilla Firefox" folder.

Other possible alternative would be to add these bookmarks directly on the bookmarks tree root, thus showing all these bookmarks on the Bookmarks menu.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

The folder is called "Unsorted Bookmarks" now, so you can change the name accordingly (see Bug 416225). The bug filed for the wish to make this folder visible in the Bookmarks menu or Bookmarks Toolbar folder, was Bug 405487.

Comment 2

[:Felipe Gomes (needinfo for replies!)]

Alright, thanks for your clarification.
I'm marking it as duplicate of Bug 405487.