438301 - Firefox 3.0 RC2 - when i try to sort bookmarks by name it doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 400447

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tetic Marius Cristian]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

when i try to sort bookmarks by name it doesn't work

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open firefox
2.go to bookmarks
3.right click - choose : Sort by name 
Actual Results:  
nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Should sort by name

Comment 1

[Victor Bielawski]

on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
* When right-clicking the menu itself, Sort by Name is grayed out. (bug)
* When right-clicking a non-places-view item and clicking Sort by Name, all items (except separators) are sorted. (expected)
* When right-clicking a (non-query) folder and clicking Sort by Name, all items (except separators) are sorted in that folder. (expected)

So, please confirm.

Comment 2

[Tetic Marius Cristian]

Attachment: print screen

i had firefox 2 before and i have installed firefox 3 without unistalling the previous version of firefox.i see that this sort is not working on xp either.i have installed foxmarks bookmark synchronizer add-on.i don't know if it worked before installing the add-on.

Comment 3

[Tetic Marius Cristian]

Attachment: if i do it like this it works

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

When I run the latest nightly build with a new profile, there is no Sort By Name anymore in the menus. It was removed somewhere in April of this year. So I don't know how it still can appear in your browser, grayed out or not.
Do you see it still in safe-mode or with a new profile?

Comment 5

[Tetic Marius Cristian]

Attachment: print screen - safe mode

this is the print screen after i started in safe mode...as you can see i still have "sort by name" , but i don't understand why it should not appear because i consider it useful , personally i use it a lot.

Comment 6

[Victor Bielawski]

(In reply to comment #4)
> When I run the latest nightly build with a new profile, there is no Sort By
> Name anymore in the menus. It was removed somewhere in April of this year. So I
> don't know how it still can appear in your browser, grayed out or not.
> Do you see it still in safe-mode or with a new profile?
I see Sort by Name too, in safe mode and in a new profile, both in RC2 and Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a1pre) Gecko/2008060517c Minefield/3.1a1pre.

(In reply to comment #2)
> Created an attachment (id=324484) [details]
> print screen
That behaviour is expected. Right-clicking on a folder now sorts the items inside it.

I think the only bug here is that when right-clicking the menu itself (for example, the padding between the border and the items), Sort by Name is disabled.

Comment 7

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Sort by Name is only still present (and working) when you right click on folders, but not anymore on menu-items in the main bookmarks-menu. This was recently removed. See http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9672/naamloosfo2.png 

Comment 8

[Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.]

can this be added as applying to Mac OSX.4.11 FF3 the final (not RC).

I can sort bookmarks  by control Clicking in the tile of a Folder on Bookmarks Bar. But will not sort any sub Folders within.

However if I go to Bookmark > organize Bookmarks I can appear to sort by name or any other sort type. But as soon as I back click button to close that window everything reverts to unsorted order.

If this need to be moved to a new bug  report feel free to do so. Just give my name as submitting.

Comment 9

[Zigger]

Duplicate of bug 400447.

Comment 10

[Lucas Malor (mail: c6kfnkn2uc AT snkmail DOT c0m)]

It works for me with the latest trunk. Can you retest the bug with it?
Remember to use a blank profile. Change the resolution of this bug to
WORKSFORME if the bug seems to be resolved.

Comment 11

[Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T.]

Read my comments just posted in Bug 400447 as referenced by zigger. This explains the way I feel sort by name should work. 

Comment 12

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

yes if you do Sort By Name you are sorting the bookmarks INSIDE the folder
where you opened the context menu.

See bug 400447

Comment 13

[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