431063 - No way to recreate Smart Bookmarks that come with Firebox 3.0b5 after deleting them

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5

After deleting the Smart Bookmarks folder which contains a list of items such as Most visited places, etc, there does not seem to be a way to recreate that folder of lists.

I would suggest that by choosing "New Bookmark" would allow you to choose a type of list that you want to create (i.e., most visited places, etc., and then further define that list with # of items you want it to maintain in that list).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to organize bookmarks
2. Open the bookmarks toolbar folder
3. Delete the folder called Smart Bookmarks that comes with Firefox 3.0b5.
4. Look around for about 3 minutes to find out how to recreate them since you decided you want them back!
Actual Results:  
I couldn't find a way to recreate them after they were deleted.

Expected Results:  
I should have been able to easily find a way to recreate them and customize them within a few minutes of trying.

I would suggest that by choosing "New Bookmark" would allow you to choose a type of list that you want to create (i.e., most visited places, etc., and then further define that list with # of items you want it to maintain in that list).

Comment 1

[John P Baker]

-> Duplicate of Bug 399984

See bug 399984 comment #10 for about:config change required to restore folder.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Smart bookmarks folder will never be created again since it has gone.

Smart bookmarks are restored through the method pointed by comment #1

WFM
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042806 Minefield/3.0pre

Comment 3

[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