596615 - autobookmark shared pages and links

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

This may be a bit controversial!

Given how powerful the concept of "keeping track of the part of the web that's important to you" is in our product (it's the value of the awesomebar), I think that we should auto-bookmark pages and links that the user shares.  By sharing them, the user is implicitly stating that they are of interest;  he or she is more likely than with non-shared pages/links to want to refer to them again, but, if they're not bookmarked, they're lost.

Down the road, maybe we should indicate "things you've shared" or even "things that have been shared with you" as their own type of thing (vs. a bookmark), but this would be a good way to start.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

maybe we should tag it "shared"

Comment 2

[Matt Brubeck (:mbrubeck)]

Or put it in a special "Shared Items" folder?

If these just go in with my unfiled bookmarks, then /me Do Not Want this feature.  The bookmarks in Fennec are a flat list with no ability to sort or organize, and it's hard enough to browse them without adding tons of stuff I don't actually intend to revisit.

Comment 3

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> maybe we should tag it "shared"

this makes some sense, but bookmarking everything you share seems wrong

Comment 4

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I think we need more feedback on this. Creating bookmarks without telling the
user seems wrong.

Comment 5

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

I totally understand the value of this feature, and wish that there was an easy way to tag a history entry without it becoming a bookmark.

My sense is that the right design here would be to:

 - tag the shared sites with "shared"
 - display those in a folder of "Shared Sites"
 - have those sites cleared when the user clears history

Sadly, if we make these things bookmarks, they won't vanish when the user clears their history.

Any way we can abuse the annotation system to make this happen the right way? If not, I think it's probably worth bookmarking them, and providing an easy way to clear it from the "Shared Items" folder.

All in all, though, this feels like a feature enhancement that isn't critical for Fennec 2.0

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We could use the annotation service to tag the URLs as "shared". Making a UI for displaying the "Shared Sites" would take a little more time, but we could add it as a virtual folder in the bookmark UI (but not a real bookmark folder). Clearing the site tag when clearing history is also possible, without much work.

Simply tagging the shared site should make it be weighted higher for awesomebar searches too.

Let's make this bug about:
* Tagging as "shared"
* Clearing with history

And open a new open for displaying "Shared Sites" as a folder in the Bookmark UI

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We should clear up the requirements vs implementation. I think we want:
* Lightweight storage
* Separate shared items from normal bookmarks
* Display the shared items somehow

Comment 8

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

when we figure out comment 7, please renom.

Comment 9

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component