442820 - Bookmarks subfolders are difficult to open from primary folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Stephen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 Creative ZENcast v2.01.01
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0 Creative ZENcast v2.01.01

I use subfolders within my general bookmark folders. Starting at the "Bookmarks" drop down menu, I guide my cursor to a bookmark folder, which opens it and shows bookmarks and subfolders under that folder. As I guide my cursor to the subfolder, the subfolder opens; however when I guide my cursor to a bookmark in the subfolder, the subfolder closes and I'm back to the main folder. If I attempt this a few times, I eventually get the subfolder to stay open, but this did not happen under FF 2.0.



Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Cursor at "Bookmarks";
2.Move to bookmark folder which contains both bookmarks and subfolders containing other bookmarks;
3.Move cursor to subfolder, which opens the subfolder and shows the bookmarks within it;
4.Moving cursor to one of the bookmarks in the subfolder immediately closes the subfolder and returns the menu to the primary folder which contains the subfolder;
5.Attempting this several times eventually results in reaching the desired bookmark.  One method which works intermittently is to keep the cursor on the subfolder for 5 to 10 seconds and then attempt to move the cursor to a bookmark positioned within the subfolder, but lower on the screen from the position of the subfolder.
Actual Results:  
As I guide my cursor to the subfolder, the subfolder opens; however when I guide my cursor to a bookmark in the subfolder, the subfolder closes and I'm back to the main folder.

Expected Results:  
The cursor should have positioned at the bookmark within the subfolder.  This was the result in Firefox 2.0 and in any other browser I've ever used.

I am using the following add-ons: Download Helper 3.1, Chatzilla, DownloadThemAll, Greasemonkey, and Torbutton 1.2.0rc1.  Previous add-ons from 2.0 remain in the list, but are not usable with 3.0.

Comment 1

[Kai Liu]

Does bug 442595 comment 0 sound like the problem you are experiencing?

Comment 2

[Stephen]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does bug 442595 comment 0 sound like the problem you are experiencing?
> Nope.  Different problem.

Comment 3

[Manuj]

I tried it and its working fine.. I have made 4-5 sub folder which has more then 2-3 Bookmarks. And its working as it is suppose to do.

Comment 4

[Stephen]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I tried it and its working fine.. I have made 4-5 sub folder which has more
> then 2-3 Bookmarks. And its working as it is suppose to do.
> 

Most of my folders have enough bookmarks and subfolders to span top to bottom of the screen.  This results in an arrowhead at the bottom or top of the column to let you know that you have more unseen bookmarks (as it should).  The subfolders may have nearly the same number of bookmarks.  If there were only a few bookmarks, then there wouldn't be a problem of the subfolder closing.  As I said before, this never happened in Firefox 2.0.  If it will be a problem in 3.0 and it cannot be fixed, then the options would be to rearrange bookmarks into many more folders (seemingly redundant) or to go back to Firefox 2.0.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

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