626852 - Unsorted bookmarks should use a splitmenu

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

The menu entry Unsorted Bookmarks should use a split menu, so that clicking on it opens the library window, and hovering on it expands out a sub-menu display the contents.

Note that this might cause performance problems when the user has a very large number of unsorted bookmarks (potentially thousands), so we'll want to test with those types of cases to make sure the control still works.  Or, potentially turn off the sub-menu when the list of bookmarks hits some type of threshold.

Comment 1

[Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX)]

This behaviour should be consistent for every instance of the unsorted bookmarks menu item:

-Firefox menu > bookmarks
-Traditional menu > bookmarks
-Navigation toolbar > bookmarks

Comment 2

[Steffen Wilberg]

I tried it, but with more than 200 items it's an almost endless slow-scrolling nightmare. Might consider displaying only the most recently added 15 items.

Comment 4

[Gingerbread Man]

(In reply to Alex Faaborg [:faaborg] (Firefox UX) from comment #3)
> *** Bug 589254 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

In that case, bug 749999 should be marked as a duplicate as well.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.