602937 - Sync re-arranged bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Cloud Services :: General, defect)

Description

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

When Syncing using 4b6, Sync re-arranged bookmarks, and it was rather difficult
to find where the bookmarks were. No bookmarks were lost.
(Filing this on behalf of my brother.)

Comment 1

[Ragavan S [:rags]]

Does your brother use folders and did the bookmarks get rearranged inside folders? Or are these bookmarks in the Unsorted bookmarks folder?

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

RE comment 1: if the former, this is probably a dupe of bug 545647. If the latter, this is probably a dupe of bug 538017.

Comment 3

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Yes, he uses folders and bookmarks inside folders kept the right order.

Comment 4

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

and those mis-arranged folders weren't in the bookmarks toolbar.

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

I'm still not clear on where the mis-arranged items lived.  Were they the direct contents of the Bookmarks menu?
(like attachment 480169 [details] vs attachment 480170 [details], on bug 545647)

Comment 6

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

Yeah, the folders used to be somewhere in the top of bookmarks menu, and
after using Sync they moved to the bottom of the menu - in both machines.

Comment 7

[Shankar Unni]

I've run into this, too, after the 4.0b8 update. Yes, I'm using folders. No, these are not Unsorted Bookmarks.

Also, the drag-and-drop editing of the bookmark menu is now broken (as of beta 8). Now, when dragging and dropping a bookmark, it doesn't get dropped where I point it - it sometimes ends up two or three locations away. And it's almost random; if I repeat the operation, it ends up somewhere else the second time.

The only way to reliably edit the bookmark order now is with the Bookmark editor ("Show all Bookmarks").

Comment 8

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I've run into this, too, after the 4.0b8 update. Yes, I'm using folders. No,
> these are not Unsorted Bookmarks.

If you can reproduce this, could you please follow the steps explained at https://philikon.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/bookmark-sync-issues/. Getting more logs should hoepfully help us track down the issue.

> Also, the drag-and-drop editing of the bookmark menu is now broken (as of beta
> 8). Now, when dragging and dropping a bookmark, it doesn't get dropped where I
> point it - it sometimes ends up two or three locations away. And it's almost
> random; if I repeat the operation, it ends up somewhere else the second time.

That's disturbing. Please file a new bug in the Firefox :: Bookmarks & History component. Thanks!

Comment 9

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

please reopen if you can provide details and logs.

Comment 10

[Shankar Unni]

I haven't seen this behavior for the last few releases, so it's OK to close as fixed.