423088 - Bookmarks disappear from menu after v2.0->v3.0b4 upgrade - reappear after restart

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ryan Elliott]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b4) Gecko/2008030317 Firefox/3.0b4

After upgrading from Firefox 2.0 to Firefox 3.0b4, I noticed the bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu disappeared. The bookmarks came back after I restarted Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgraded from Firefox 2.0 to Firefox 3.0b4.
2. Opened Firefox.
3. Customized toolbar to show small icons (not sure if this has anything to do with it).
4. Clicked on Bookmarks menu.
Actual Results:  
My bookmarks contained in "Bookmarks Menu" folder did not show up. However, if I clicked "Show All Bookmarks..." from the Bookmarks menu, I could see my bookmarks within the "Bookmarks Menu" folder.

Expected Results:  
I should of been able to see my bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu.

The problem went away after I closed Firefox and reopened.

Comment 1

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

Bulk closing all UNCONFIRMED bugs dealing with places that haven't had any bug activity in over 120 days, have no votes, and are not enhancement requests.

If you are still experiencing this issue in Firefox 3.0 or later, please re-open the bug with steps to reproduce (if they were not part of the original comment).

Comment 2

[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