583603 - Importing SmartFind bookmarks into places does not transform them into something usable or drop them.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Places, defect)

Description

[Ian Neal]

Steps to reproduce
1/ Open Organize Bookmarks
2/ Select Import and Backup
3/ Select Import HTML...
4/ Import a bookmarks.html file that has SmartFind queries in
5/ Examine list of bookmarks

Expected Results
Either
1/ SmartFind queries have been transformed into something usable
or
1/ SmartFind queries are dropped as part of the import process with a suitable warning message.

Actual Results
1/ SmartFind queries are listed with no transformation and not usable.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

Note that SmartFind has been broken in the old bookmarks system, i.e. on the suite side, since some time in 2003, see bug 200136, but it might be nice to have places import revive those queries by converting them to places URLs magically. ;-)

Still, I don't think I would block landing places on the SeaMonkey side based on this bug being resolved.

Comment 2

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I don't think we are going to fix this after these many years, sorry.