69768 - Copying bookmarks from IE Favorites only works till browser restart

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Matthew Wilson]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010215
BuildID:    2001021508

After copying a bookmark from IE Favorites into Mozilla bookmarks, that bookmark
works (i.e. it can be used to go to a page), but after restarting the browser,
it does not.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1) Use Bookmark Manager to copy a bookmark from Imported IE Favorites.
   [eg a bookmark "mozilla.org" to "www.mozilla.org"
2) Paste the bookmark into the "real" Mozilla bookmarks.
3) Select bookmark. Mozilla goes to URL correctly.
4) Close then restart Mozilla.
5) Select bookmark.

Actual Results:  Mozilla went to the actual IE Favorite file, not the URL stored
within it, ie the URL bar displayed

file:///C|/WINNT/Profiles/username/Favorites/Mozilla/mozilla.org.url

and the browser window showed

[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.mozilla.org/
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.mozilla.org/
Modified=303B6F0B4455C0013F

(the contents of the file within the Favorites file structure).

Expected Results:  Should have gone to the URL www.mozilla.org.

Comment 1

[ajbu]

I also noticed this before. Copy should probably be disabled when copying 
Favorites is not supported. Also note that in the bookmark manager the 
Edit/Copy, Paste and Delete items are enabled on Imported Favorites, and on the 
context only Copy.

Comment 2

[Matthew Wilson]

>Copy should probably be disabled

I disagree. Copy out of IE Favorites used not to work at all, now it half works
and might as well be fixed to work completely.

Comment 3

[Vikas Bhargava]

Confirming on a CVS Build from 11AM on WinNT.

Comment 4

[Matthew Wilson]

I think that the copied bookmark still has a Type of IEFavorite in the RDF, 
even though it is not part of the IEFavorite tree. Presumably then we don't 
know how to write it to disk, so that on restart, it does not have the correct 
behaviour.

Comment 5

[Steve Chapel]

With the latest two nightly builds (2001041804 and 2001041904) on Windows 2000,
all of my imported IE bookmarks are acting this way.

Comment 6

[ratman]

using win32 installer m0.9.  the following is copied from bug 76618:

"...all other imported ie favorite subfolders previously copied from ie
favorites into the main bookmarks tree display as single bookmarks without
titles; clicking on them opens the file:// structure at the relevant location.
the personal toolbar bookmarks folder, however, displays copied subdirectories
just fine...."

Comment 7

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Paul Chen is now taking Bookmarks bugs. For your convenience, you can filter 
email notifications caused by this by searching for 'ilikegoats'.

Comment 8

[Paul Chen]

moving to mozilla1.1 since I think we'll fix IE Favorites in other ways before
then ;-)

Comment 9

[Peter Trudelle]

mass reassign of pchen bookmark bugs to ben

Comment 10

[Pierre Chanial]

*** Bug 100507 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

Mass reassign of my non-Firefox bugs to [e-mail]

Comment 12

[Steve Chapel]

I haven't seen this bug in years. Can anyone reproduce it in SeaMonkey?

Comment 13

[:Hb]

SM 2 doesn't have imported IE bookmarks any more.

Comment 14

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

(In reply to comment #13)
> SM 2 doesn't have imported IE bookmarks any more.

Wrong, I just checked with a new profile just to be sure. In fact you should have checked yourself before taking action. Anyway, since I cannot reproduce this bug using the steps outlined in comment 0 (and that's what counts!) I'll leave the bug resolution as-is.

Comment 15

[:Hb]

To import bookmarks or Favorites from other browsers Seamonkey must be started with the -migration option. This generates an Imported IE Favorites folder in Bookmarks.