638723 - Bookmarks are invisible until restart when dragging/adding them to folders

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[firefoxbugreporting]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110218 Firefox/3.6.14

Whenever I add a new bookmark or move an existing bookmark to a folder which is in my bookmarks toolbar this bookmark is invisible until browser restart. If I go to the manage bookmarks folder they are all listed correctly but are not shown when opening the folder in the toolbar itself. This changes only when restarting the browser.

I also observed this behavior on my other PC running the same FF version plus Windows XP.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. have a bookmark folder in your bookmark toolbar
2. select a bookmark or create a new one and drag this into the folder
Actual Results:  
the bookmark disappears and does not show up again until browser restart. it is shown in the bookmark manager, though.

Expected Results:  
when selecting the folder it should also show bookmarks newly dragged there.

Comment 1

[firefoxbugreporting]

If this could be affected by plugins: I'm using NoScript, BetterPrivacy and S3Fox.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Could you see if the issue occurs with a new, empty profile:
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_make-a-new-profile

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I've seen this reported before and it should be fixed in Firefox 4.0

Comment 4

[firefoxbugreporting]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Could you see if the issue occurs with a new, empty profile:
> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic%20Troubleshooting#w_make-a-new-profile

As already stated above: I observed this behavior on two independent installations. I guess that also includes a new and empty profile ;)

Comment 5

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

It's feasible that both profiles have the same broken addon installed.

Please can you just try with a new profile & the latest nightly, and confirm if it is still broken.

Comment 6

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

I think we are not going to fix this on 3.6.x since the patch would not pass the approvals requirements (4.0 changed a bunch of stuff on these bindings, to a point of removing the bindings completely).
I'm marking as worksforme on 4.0, wontfix on 3.6.