575235 - Bookmarks Widget is missing "Bookmark This Page" item

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100627 Minefield/3.7a6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; en-US; rv:1.9.3a6pre) Gecko/20100627 Minefield/3.7a6pre

... Which makes it practically useless. Needs to be added before Beta 1.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

it's by design to reduce UI duplication, the Star button is your target.

Comment 2

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

Hmm, why the Star button bookmark page as unsorted and then you cen place it elsewhere? While it's great to reduce UI duplication, why makes it more complicated that it was before?

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

1. you can click the star twice and choice position
2. the new button has unsorted bookmarks folder too while old menu had not
3. you can still use the old shortcut and also the old menu
4. you can right click on page and Bookmark this page
5. you can drag & drop the favicon to the menu or the button
6. this bug won't ever block beta1
7. you should not change status of the bugs once a peer or owner changes it

Comment 4

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 7. you should not change status of the bugs once a peer or owner changes it

I'm the owner and I didn't change anything.

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

you're owner of the bug, I was talking about owner of the code module.

Comment 6

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

But still, I didn't change anything. I respect the developer's decision.

Comment 7

[Shawn Wilsher :sdwilsh]

(In reply to comment #6)
> But still, I didn't change anything. I respect the developer's decision.
You reopened it, but you may have done it by accident because bugzilla doesn't communicate conflicts well (did you get a page that talks about a mid-air collision?)

Comment 8

[Peter Henkel [:Terepin]]

No, I have just posted reply, that's all.

Comment 9

[Daniel C]

I personally think that this should be fixed as it makes it easier to transition from IE and it seems strange to have a bookmarks widget that doesn't allow you to bookmark the current page.

Comment 11

[Himanshu]

But whats about Subscribe To This Page Option. It's also absent.

Comment 12

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

that option is controversial also in the bookmarks menu, it was already asked to remove it from there as well (bug 519942). the rss icon in the locationbar is doing a much better work.
But we need User Experience team on these topics.

Comment 13

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

>uiwanted

bookmark this page -> star icon, context menu of page
bookmark all tabs -> context menu of the tab strip only
subscribe to this page and web feed icon-> send menu, context menu of page, control placed on the toolbar customization pallet

Comment 14

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

I added this back to the bookmarks menu over in bug 583386, partly because it felt strange to have subscribe without bookmark, and partly because it is such a high usage menu item.  It is redundant though, which isn't great.

Comment 16

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

fixed in bug 592900

Comment 18

[Simona Badau, Desktop QA]

This is the intended behavior for the Bookmarks widget.

Verified on:
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.2a1pre) Gecko/20110405 Firefox/4.2a1pre