438403 - Path of a bookmark not visible in search results

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 196509

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Simon A. Eugster]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052711 Iceweasel/3.0 (Debian-3.0~rc1-1)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052711 Iceweasel/3.0 (Debian-3.0~rc1-1)

When I search for a bookmark, I cannot see its path. I periodically need this, e.g. if I don't know anymore in which folder a certain bookmark is – at the moment I've got around 1000 Bookmarks.

A move feature or a field to select the folder (just like in the «Edit this bookmark» dialogue) would be nice, at least for the Library. But more important (and less laborious) is imho a new column in the Library which shows the path to the bookmark (e.g. Software/Browser/Firefox). 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create tons of folders with the same amount of subdirectories.
2. Hide any bookmark in one of the countless subdirectories.
3. Ask your neighbour (or anyone else) to tell you the folder containing the bookmark (without taking a look to the HTML file).
Actual Results:  
He will have to open every single folder and subfolder, if you put it in the last one your test person will open, and you will do that (Murphy)

Expected Results:  
The test person opens the Library and searches for the bookmark and tells you the displayed path.

Actually, I had this problem e.g. with a bookmark whose location changed, thus I couldn't simply visit the page and move the bookmark over the «Edit this bookmark» dialogue. I still don't know where the old bookmark has been located.

Comment 2

[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