62631 - From Mozilla to Netscape 4.x, bookmarks become distorted.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[chitkara]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686; en-US; 0.6) Gecko/20001205
BuildID:

Basically what happens is that - If I use a symbolic link between
Mozilla/5.0 and Netscape Navigator 4.73 to share a common html file for
bookmarks. Next,if I modify the properties of any item from the
Personal Toolbar Folder in Mozilla. This particular item then appears
distorted in Netscape Navigator.So the bug is that Mozilla has
problems when sharing a common html bookmarks file with Netscape
Navigator 4.73.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to "Bookmarks".
2. Make the selection "Manage Bookmarks".
3. Next change the property of any item from the "Personal Toolbar
   Folder". (I did not experiment with items other than this folder).
4. Open Netscape Navigator and see the distorted item in the "
   Personal Toolbar Folder".

Note - There is a symbolic link i.e the bookmarks.html in the .mozilla
   folder refers to the file in the .netscape folder.
   There is a set "true" for all read-write-and-execute on this file.

Actual Results:  > Distorted Personal Toolbar Folder

Expected Results:  Should not have distored the items from "Personal Toolbar Folder"
in Netscape.

Comment 1

[Henrik Gemal]

*** Bug 62632 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[James Green]

I'm guessing here that we're storing attributes and possibly other stuff in moz
that NN4.x isn't handling all that well... Could be a WONTFIX.

In fact I'm being advised that this is indeed WONTFIX by Ben, so you'll have to
maintain two sets of bookmarks, or do the "right thing" and just use mozilla :).
Updating summary to better reflect the issue.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying WontFix bugs which haven't changed since 2001-12-31.

use the search string "BoletusEdulis" if you want to filter out this msg.