565270 - Make the bookmark URL textbox be multi-line, and let users paste in bookmarklets containing "//" comments.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Jason Spiro]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100511 Minefield/3.7a5pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.3a5pre) Gecko/20100511 Minefield/3.7a5pre (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Thank you for designing the excellent "Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks..." dialog.

In that dialog, each bookmark has a Location textbox which holds the bookmark's URL.  But it's only a single-line textbox.  This isn't perfect for bookmarklet ("javascript:..." bookmark) writers.

Some suggestions:

Please make it a multi-line textbox instead, and make it take up a few lines on-screen to show users that it's multi-line.  Please allow users to paste in multi-line bookmarklets containing "//" end-of-line comments.  Please preserve the line breaks (newlines).  This will make things easier when bookmarklet writers copy and paste their bookmarklets back into Notepad for further editing.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Doesn't look like something that would be useful to most users, to some sure. I'd rather point the request to an add-on.

Comment 2

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Agreed, I think this would be better for some sort of bookmarklet editor add-on for those that do use them.