721508 - Android Sync does not preserve bookmark order

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect, P1)

Description

[Dietrich Ayala (:dietrich)]

after setting up sync on aurora, i went to lunch. upon returning, my bookmarks toolbar has been completely re-ordered.

i cannot tell if things have been added/removed yet.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Known omission.

My suggestion is to not use Android Sync with your main profile until it's stable; it's in Nightly and Aurora just so people can try it out.

You can restore your bookmarks from the automatic backups that Sync takes on desktop:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Backing-up-restoring-bookmarks?redirectlocale=en-US&s=restore+bookmarks&r=0&as=s&redirectslug=Backing+up+and+restoring+bookmarks#w_restoring-from-backups

Comment 2

[Lucas Rocha (:lucasr)]

Richard, is this just something that Sync hasn't implemented yet? AFAIK, the DB does have a position column for this exact purpose.

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Lucas Rocha (:lucasr) from comment #2)
> Richard, is this just something that Sync hasn't implemented yet? AFAIK, the
> DB does have a position column for this exact purpose.

Yup, just something we apparently didn't get around to. I'll be looking into it this week.

(Getting this right is complicated, given that records can arrive in any order; we need to update positions after futzing with parent records and reconciling.)

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I this possibly a dupe of 708149.  Dietrich, do you have things like smartmarks, livemarks, feeds or separators on your BM toolbar?  If so, look in your library.  Did all those things get pushed to the end of the BM Toolbar folder?

Comment 5

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

(In reply to Tracy Walker [:tracy] from comment #4)
> I this possibly a dupe of 708149.  Dietrich, do you have things like
> smartmarks, livemarks, feeds or separators on your BM toolbar?  If so, look
> in your library.  Did all those things get pushed to the end of the BM
> Toolbar folder?

We didn't implement positioning until February. Dietrich just used an alpha-quality product too soon!

But we've fixed this now with Bug 718238.

Comment 6

[Andreea Pod]

I synced my desktop profile with my device and the bookmark order didn't changed, marking this as verified fixed.
Build: Firefox 14.0a1(2012-03-27)
Device: LG Optimus 2X (Android 2.2)