423799 - Can no longer designate a folder to be Bookmarks Toolbar Folder

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 400386

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Ed Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031806 Minefield/3.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b5pre) Gecko/2008031806 Minefield/3.0b5pre

In the Places Library one can designate a folder to be the Bookmarks Toolbar Folder via the context menu. In Minefield, this selection is not present on the context menu.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Library.
2. Select a folder.
3. Right-click on the folder.
Actual Results:  
Context menu lacks any mention of making that folder a Bookmarks Toolbar folder. There is also no such item in the menus at the top of the window.

Expected Results:  
There should be a way to designate a folder as Bookmarks Toolbar folder.

This is a regression.

It is important, since when one imports fx2 bookmarks, the Bookmarks Toolbar folder in the imported file is not designated the Bookmarks Toolbar folder in fx3.

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