497607 - Allow querying on individual bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Currently, it's easy and pretty efficient to track a folder, a query, or even a particular URL using the result api. However, for tracking indiviual bookmark-items, the plan bookmark observer has to be used.

The use case is editBookmarkOverlay.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

if we can make the observer faster and have better notifications, what's wrong with that?
Is this simply to avoid passing through xpcom?

Comment 2

[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 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

It is unclear as to the advantages here, tracking a single bookmark may be more logical, but may also cause more complicated code to be maintained. The bookmark observer system is currently being redone and is likely to reduce the costs of the xpcom overheads.