426875 - Enable sorting in the 'Page Info' => 'Media' table

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275223

(Firefox :: Page Info Window, defect)

Description

[robertmarley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032904 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008032904 Minefield/3.0pre

On any site: Opening 'Page Info':
You can do this by pressing CTRL+I if you have 'page info' extension installed
or
right-click 'View Page Info'
Then click on 'Media'.
Then try to arrange the contents after 'Type'.
Pressing it, makes nothing happen.
I know it is a minor bug, but still... having a page with a lot of content it is nice to be able to arrange the contents by 'Type' instead of by 'Address' (default)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
Function not working

Expected Results:  
Arrange by 'Type'

Comment 1

[bugzilla.mozilla.org]

confirmed with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008052707 Minefield/3.0pre

but the wording of the bug is a bit misleading - I didn't understand what it is about until I acutally went to the page info.

I think it should read more like:

[RFE] enable sorting in the "page info" => "media" table

Comment 2

[robertmarley]

@1#: taken into consideration and now the title has been changed.

Hehe took me some time though to figure out how to do it.
I pressed the 'edit' button, the dropdown dropped down, I wrote the new title in 'Summary' (would be better if it said 'New title'), but then what? 
Finally I found out that you had to scroll down and press commit.

Didn't take the [RFE] part to the new title, because I'm not sure what it means. The guess I came up with was [RFE] = RequestForEdit, is that it?

P.S. if you can confirm the bug, then please mark it as 'confirmed' (or 'VERIFIED' as I think is the term used) 

Comment 3

[robertmarley]

Is it possible to somehow edit the 'description' of the bug? 
So I can change "Then click on 'Media'" to "Then click on 'Media' table" and "arrange" to "sort"...

Comment 4

[robertmarley]

Attachment: illustration of the bug01

Comment 5

[robertmarley]

Attachment: illustration of the bug02

Comment 6

[robertmarley]

Added some illustrations so one quicker can understand what the bug is about

Plus, just for the record:
the previous title of the bug was: "'View Page Info' arrange function not working"

Comment 7

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

This seems like a duplicate of bug 275223.

Comment 8

[robertmarley]

Seems, that you're right. Wow this bug was reported long time ago :O (as early as 2001 according to this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76170 )

According to this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317675 the bug was not present in FF version 1.0.7 (help to developers)

In this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76170 I found this comment which might be interesting to developers:
"it looks like there are two ways to fix this. 1) Rewrite nxXULSortService, and
2) rewrite page info to use outliners instead of trees. Since 2 provies more
benefits than 1, and I'm less likely to screw anything else up by doing 2 than I
would by attempting 1, it looks like 2 is the way to go. Probably more work
though :P"

Another comment, which might interest developers (found in this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416573 ):
"The Meta treeview and the Media treeview share the same treeview implementation
(pageInfoTreeView), so I think it would be possible to fix both issues in a
single bug.
"

Also found out that for some reason (:S) on this page: http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/users/kersten/kersten-lab/courses/Psy5038WF2003/5038Syllabus.html the 'Media' table is not there... (what the ?) (Should I make a new bug concerning this?)

I can't see why it should be wrong so here I post all the duplicates (exactly the same issue they consern) I found thanks to your link (#7):
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=275223
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317675
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228110
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416556
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=416573
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101904
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123950

Also there are a lot of patches doing stuff to 'Page Info' here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52730 , but I don't understand what they do, and also I don't know how to implement a patch... 

Comment 9

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

(In reply to comment #8)

> According to this thread: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317675
> the bug was not present in FF version 1.0.7 (help to developers)

No, the comment says that the feature was not present in 1.0.7

> Also found out that for some reason (:S) on this page:
> http://gandalf.psych.umn.edu/users/kersten/kersten-lab/courses/Psy5038WF2003/5038Syllabus.html
> the 'Media' table is not there... (what the ?) (Should I make a new bug
> concerning this?)

No, that's bug 377396.

> Also there are a lot of patches doing stuff to 'Page Info' here:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52730 , but I don't understand
> what they do, and also I don't know how to implement a patch... 
> 

Bug 52730 is marked as FIXED. These patches were applied in 2002.

Comment 10

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

What's going on with this bug? I'm still seeing the issue since it's not been fixed...

Comment 11

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Sorry, build Id: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 ID:20090423192432

and this occurs over all platforms as well.