595080 - dropdown menu missing to show more bookmarks that don't fit onscreen in bookmarks toolbar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Toolbars and Customization, defect)

Description

[thomasjerde]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5

I have more bookmarks in my Bookmarks Toolbar than will fit in the width of the toolbar.  In previous versions, these additional bookmarks were accessible through a dropdown menu at the right end of the toolbar.

In the Firefox 4 beta (b5 at least), this menu is missing from the toolbar (just the "Bookmarks" menu is visible).  I can find no customization options to bring it back.

All additional bookmarks that don't fit in the current window width are only accessible through the hierarchy of the top menu Bookmarks / Bookmarks Toolbar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
No steps required.  Look at Bookmarks Toolbar.
Actual Results:  
only dropdown menu in Bookmarks Toolbar (aside from bookmark folders) is "Bookmarks", which does not permit access to any toolbar bookmarks.

Expected Results:  
Should provide a dropdown menu at right end of Bookmarks Toolbar, containing additional toolbar bookmarks that don't fit onscreen.

An inelegant and imperfect work-around is to create a new folder in the bookmarks toolbar and transfer overflowing toolbar bookmarks into it.  But there's no way to make it dynamically update to contain *only* those bookmarks that won't fit on the current window size.

Comment 2

[André]

It is still there in the nightly builds and really annoying.

>Steps to Reproduce:
>1. put bookmarks next to tab toolbar
>2. open many tabs so that bookmarks toolbar become smaller and some bookmarks becomes hidden (after a arrow)
>3. close tabs
>Actual Results:  
>sometimes hidden bookmarks don't show up again BUT arrow disappear

Comment 3

[grounux]

This bug is still there in the RC (from http://ppa.launchpad.net/mozillateam/firefox-stable/ubuntu/).

Same steps to reproduce as André.

Comment 4

[David]

Also experiencing this problem. Still occurs in the nightly builds over a year later!

Also related to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668909
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643274

Comment 5

[Owen Jones]

I think this might be fixed by my patch for Bug 603817

Comment 6

[Bart]

I have the same problem still in 2018, the drop down menu at the right disappears from the screen, and you can fill it with spaces but only unto the half.

Comment 8

[:Gijs (he/him)]

I think the logic here is a lot better, and if people still have this issue they are probably better off filing a new bug at this point, with more details on how to reproduce.