426674 - Clicking the Star should give possibility to fill all bookmark properties

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 405795

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Igor Velkov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040112 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008040112 Minefield/3.0pre

Clicking on gold star in address bar I can set name, folder, and tag.
There need be possibility (maybe, by press one of "down" buttons) to set other bookmark fields - at least keywords and description.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Louise]

yes, needing to open Library just to add a keyword is troublesome.

Comment 2

[Phil Randal]

This should probably be another bug, but it needs mentioning for consistency - if you right-click on a bookmark and select "properties", you get a box with Name, Location, Keyword, and Description, and no option to set tags.

We need a unified, consistent view of bookmark properties.

Comment 3

[Phil Randal]

Fixed by the Ex Bookmark Properties addon:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7396

Comment 4

[Phil Randal]

See also bug 411261

It would be great to kill two bugs with one stone.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

notice that for keywords you should right click on the search field and choose "add Keyword for this search" adding a keyword through the star does not make sense.

About adding a description, that's something more advanced, most users will not need to do that and clobbering the star panel with other fields will make it more scary for average users.

so i would vote for WONTFIX (for adding keyword and description to star panel)

Comment 6

[Igor Velkov]

"Average users" don't uses bookmarks at all.

Comment 7

[Paul J. Weiss]

(In reply to comment #6)
I disagree. Most of the people I know who use Firefox I would call average users, and most of them use bookmarks.

Comment 8

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

(In reply to comment #5)
> notice that for keywords you should right click on the search field and choose
> "add Keyword for this search" adding a keyword through the star does not make
> sense.
> 
> About adding a description, that's something more advanced, most users will not
> need to do that and clobbering the star panel with other fields will make it
> more scary for average users.
> 
> so i would vote for WONTFIX (for adding keyword and description to star panel)

Marco, not all keywords are meant for searches. Also for visiting a bookmark by typing the keyword in the locationbar.

And Igor, tell me how to browse without bookmarks. Google, history, typing address?

Comment 9

[Igor Velkov]

Users I sayed about browses via drop-down list at address-bar, or via enter address from little paper sheet. Most advanced from this users category have some bookmarks at linkbar, added by more advanced people.

I want to tell you can't scare user adding some more field, at least if this fields is hidden under "adwanced" button by default, if user know about bookmarks more than "it exists" and "it can be added by pressing star picture" - they newer see that fields.
Users that knows how to get bookmark edition dialog can't be scared, beause they not scare by dialogs and fields.

Comment 11

[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