497606 - In the tags service, use the result api for all tasks rather than using both the result api and observers

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

In the tags service, use the result api for all tasks rather than using both the result api and observers.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

ideally we want to strip out tags from bookmarks, so this would be a step back, imo. result should not be used at all if we do the above.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

also actually we use bookmarks observer to eventually remove tags when a bookmark is removed.

Comment 3

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

ugh, we had several bugs from using the result api inside of the backend services like tags and livemarks, usually involving things like bookmark restore iirc.

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

using results in tagging service caused more perf issues than benefits, and we want to remove them from bookmarks, so this is a wontfix imo.