499022 - Bookmark UI needs serious improvement

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Dan Dascalescu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

I'm sorry if I'm missing something or if this has been posted elsewhere, but I've spent about 20 minutes searching Bugzilla and didn't find any suitable *Firefox* bug (there is one in Seamonkey at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=319038).

IMO there are some pretty large issues with the Firefox bookmarking UI:

1) The Ctrl+D pop-up needs to be movable around (it can obscure a portion of the page the user needs information from)

2) The pop-up also needs to be resizable

3) It needs a way to display the extra fields that are accessible through Organize Bookmarks, mainly the Comment field.

In general, the Ctrl+D pop-up should behave and look much more like the bookmarks Library. Its current state for the past year(s) made bookmarking on delicious.com WAY more functional than in Firefox.

4) In Organize Bookmarks, what is the difference between Tags and Keywords?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Ctrl+D
Actual Results:  
Crippled bookmarking pop-up

Expected Results:  
Something much more like the bookmarks Library.

I'm surprised at the sorry state of bookmarking in Firefox and by all means, please point me to an existing discussion or rationale if I'm missing something.

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

First of all i must point to the fact we only accept one issue per report. So yes, you should have filed a bug for each of your issues.
Clearly after a search to confirm bugs were not already existing (you said you did that, so thanks for that).

(In reply to comment #0)
> 1) The Ctrl+D pop-up needs to be movable around (it can obscure a portion of
> the page the user needs information from)

bug 434359

> 2) The pop-up also needs to be resizable

bug 418864

> 3) It needs a way to display the extra fields that are accessible through
> Organize Bookmarks, mainly the Comment field.

bug 405795

> 4) In Organize Bookmarks, what is the difference between Tags and Keywords?

Ugh, they are 2 completely different things. Keywords are shortcuts to "search" by a term (right click on a search field, like Google field and choose "add keyword for this search), while Tags are... a way to tag items based on arguments.

I'm marking as invalid since this contains many requests, btw all of them are duplicates of already existing bugs, so no need to do anything more, just cc you to those bugs and wait or help fixing them.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

thanks marco, was looking for those bugs now.

Comment 3

[Dan Dascalescu]

Thanks Marco, I've added myself to the CC of the other bugs.

As for #4 - maybe renaming the Keywords label to "Search keywords" would clear up the confusion.