492757 - Existing tag overrides case of partially-matching new tag

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 491520

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Martin Packer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090513 (CK-IBM) Minefield/3.6a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2a1pre) Gecko/20090513 (CK-IBM) Minefield/3.6a1pre

I had a bookmark tag already in existence: "SHARE" and I wanted to create a NEW tag "sharp". Tagging insisted it had to be SHARp. That is case was forced to match the existing tag right up to the point where the two tag strings diverged (and then the front-end of the tag didn't revert back to what I typed).

I think we need to remember what the user is typing's case and use that if the 2 tags deviate. (Or something similar - sorry to sound prescriptivist.)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Have an existing tag "SHARE"
2.Type in a new tag "sharp"
Actual Results:  
tag is "SHARp"

Expected Results:  
tag should be "sharp"

A recent tag bug to do with case was closed. May well have caused this.