443198 - Deleted Bookmarks are not sent to the Recycle Bin, so accidental deletions are unrecoverable.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[David Carter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14

I created a new folder in bookmarks, then found I'd duplicated one in the next Bookmark.  Deleted the new (I thought) and the entire next Bookmark, full of URLs, was deleted.  Perhaps I didn't have the "new"/empty Bookmark folder highlighted - that is not the point.
. . . Internet Explorer 6 sends deleted bookmarks to the Recycle Bin.  Firefox should, too.
. . . Things sent to the Recycle Bin can be recovered.  As is, Firefox does not provide a means of recovering an accidentally deleted Bookmark.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click Bookmarks, click Organize Bookmarks
2.Click New Folder icon, name it _New Folder, description: Test for bug report
3.Right click the new folder, click Delete
4.Open Recycle Bin - it is empty (if it was empty before test)
Actual Results:  
The deleted Bookmark was not in Recycle Bin and I can find no way to recover a deleted Bookmark.

Expected Results:  
Any Bookmark that is deleted should go to the Recycle Bin for recovery if desired.

None

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

IE is using single files for each bookmark, it can move the physical file to the Recycle bin but Firefox3 is using an SQL database (Firefox2: one html file with all bookmarks), moving it to the windows recycle bin doesn't work and makes no sense because no physical file is deleted if you delete a bookmark.

There are enough ways to restore a bookmark:
In Firefox3 (you are still using FF2) you can do Bookmarks/organize Bookmarks/Organize/Undo or use the automatic backup from the Organize Bookmarks/import and Backup/restore.

In Firefox2 there is also a "undo" in organize Bookmarks.

marking worksforme because restoring bookmarks is no problem