436563 - Bookmarks Library doesn't save expanded editing view

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 418141

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Markus N.]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052909 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052909 Firefox/3.0

On opening the "Bookmarks\Organize Bookmarks..."-dialog and selecting an URL I can edit details like URL, Location, Tags and get a button to expand "More" for Keywords and Description. When I close the bookmark editor in the same session and start it again I will have to expand it manually again. I would expect to click on "More" once and it stays that way until I click "Less" again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load "Bookmarks\Organize Bookmarks..."
2. Select any bookmark
3. Click on "More" in editing section
4. Close Bookmark library
5. Open library again (see 1)
6. Select any bookmark
Actual Results:  
The editing section expands for the time the library is opened but collapses when the user closes it and has to be expanded the next time around.

Expected Results:  
Depending on the chosen activation state of the button the editing section of the library window should display all info or reduced information and keep the user settings indefinitely. When the user opens the library and choses "More" (or "Less"), closes the library and opens it again the editing section should still be expanded (or collapsed respectively).

I would be fine with a config workaround to fix this on my machine since I can understand why you might want to have automatic fallback for some users. On the other hand maybe an additional settings point in the "Views" menu for the Library could be added. I'm thinking of a "Edit Mode" entry with the options "Full and Normal" below "Sort" as an additional alternative to the More/Less button.