Closed Bug 453054 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Changes to order of bookmarks are lost with browser close->reopen

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 462366

People

(Reporter: qlorance12, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

I am able to drag bookmarks around to change their order in both the toolbar and in "Organize Bookmarks".  The bookmarks then appear in the correct order in other (pre-existing) browser windows, new browser windows, etc.  If, however, I close all the browser windows and restart the program, the bookmarks revert to their previous order.  The bug showed up *most* of the time... but not every time.

Since Bug 405198 is "fixed", I am re-submitting.  Also, its not *exactly* the same thing.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a browser window.
2.Left-click on a folder in the bookmarks toolbar
3.Click and drag one of your bookmarks to a different location within the same list.
4.Drop it.
5.Close Firefox.
6.Open Firefox. Observe the order of the bookmarks in the folder you just changed.
Actual Results:  
The order of the bookmarks reverted to the order before they were changed.

Expected Results:  
The changes should have held.

Default theme.  Recently upgraded to Firefox 3.0.1
Windows XP sp 3
Not sure if there's a way to work around it.
could you check in about:config if importBookmarksHTML is set to true and set it to false if that's the case? please report results here.
browser.places.importBookmarksHTML was set to true.  I set it to false.  It seems to be keeping my changes now.

However, I don't remember doing anything in my configuration to change the default behavior.

Also, I found a work-around.  I can make whatever changes I like to my bookmarks, then go to Organize Bookmarks and backup my bookmarks, after which my changes stick (I don't have restore).
so this is bug 462366, due to importBookmarksHTML. thanks
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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