Closed
Bug 458044
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 17 years ago
addPanel always opens added links INSIDE the sidebar
Categories
(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)
Firefox
Bookmarks & History
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 214530
People
(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)
Details
When (unprivileged) JS code is using window.sidebar.addPanel() to add a bookmark to the FF sidebar, the added link ALWAYS has the 'open this link in the sidebar' property set.
Now I remember it always used to be the policy of Mozilla not to allow unprivileged JS to add bookmarks at all; that was the user's responsibility. Maybe the Firefox ethos has changed here, which is fine, but surely either you should not allow any adding of bookmarks using window.sidebar.addPanel(), or you should perhaps add a param to it that lets you specify NOT to open the bookmark in the sidebar? The majority of webpages are just going to want to add a regular bookmark that opens in the browser window/tab.
Agreed, I was just about to file this bug.
As a developer, I often need to pass a specific URL to bookmark, which is not the one in the location bar.
I can provide a link for the user to click on, but the bookmark, once saved, is loaded in the sidebar.
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