643554 - hard to bookmark redirects

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

It is difficult to bookmark pages that redirect.  If you happen to open a link via Firefox, then you have a menu option.  If, however you open a link from somewhere else.....say thunderbird ... and the link redirects, the best you can do is 

1. Bookmark the page it redirects to 
2. Go to the show all bookmarks (ctrl+shift+O)
3. Find the bookmark you just created
4. Edit the location of the bookmark

Example:

http://areweprettyyet.com (currently) redirects to http://areweprettyyet.com/4/mainWindow/# .  But I want to bookmark http://areweprettyyet.com ! If that continues to redirect me, so be it, but I don't want to have to update my bookmark everytime the redirect changes :(

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak] (Away Apr 25 - May 5)]

yes, redirects handling is a problem, ideally the user only cares about the target page, but in these cases that target page can be different from time to time.
It's hard to handle both cases where:
- the original page is no longer valid and thus redirects to a new one
- the original page redirects to a different source

Even if ideally this should be the difference between http 301 (permanent redirect) and http 302 (temporary redirect), we can't be sure the page/server is doing that correctly :(

Comment 2

[Rowan Collins]

This is probably a dupe of bug 68423 (current conclusion: the UI needs to expose the original URI for the redirect page somewhere in a way that facilitates bookmarking etc)

Comment 7

[Himitimi]

It is difficult to bookmark pages that redirect. If you happen to open a link via Firefox, then you have a menu option. If, however you open a link from somewhere else......say thunderbird ... and the link redirects, the best you can do is

1. Bookmark the page it redirects to
2. Go to the show all bookmarks (ctrl+shift+O)
3. Find the bookmark you just created
4. Edit the location of the bookmark

Comment 8

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field for this bug is relatively low, S3. However, the bug has 4 duplicates.
:mak, could you consider increasing the bug severity?

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Comment 9

[BugBot (nomail) [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The last needinfo from me was triggered in error by recent activity on the bug. I'm clearing the needinfo since this is a very old bug and I don't know if it's still relevant.