481086 - Only most recent bookmark categories or folders show up as choices when creating a bookmark

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Susan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009011913 Firefox/3.0.6

When creating a bookmark, the bookmark categories or folders do not show up as choices.  That section of the bookmark categories / folders is completely blank.  Only the most recent bookmark categories /folders show up.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Bookmarks on File Menu at top
2. Click Bookmark This Page
3. Click pulldown arrow - Show all the bookmarks folders
Actual Results:  
Blank area where bookmarks folders should be

Expected Results:  
Should show all of the bookmarks folders

No special themes, no extra add-ons

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

There are two dropdown arrows; have you tried both?

Comment 2

[Rufus Laggren]

I have and results ditto - no folders appear. Running ff3.1b2; suse 10.3. Problem also appears in previous versions, although in that case the first 3 or 4 folders appeared sometimes.

Rufus

Comment 3

[Rufus Laggren]

Aha. I have found that the folders don't appear in FF3.1 "Bookmark This.." dialog because the default display has the three high level tree entries completely collapsed. Click on the arrow bullet left of "Bookmarks Menu" and the tree will expand showing all the folders. Happy to find so simple a pilot error.

Rufus

Comment 4

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Thanks, marking WORKSFORME.

Comment 5

[Susan]

It isn't doing it any more.  Closing Firefox and re-opening it fixed the problem and I haven't seen it since.

However, when I did have the problem there was nothing at all to expand or collapse.  It was completely blank.

So your solution may work for you, but it would not have worked for me.

-Susan