77496 - closing large folder in sidebar bookmarks menu sometimes makes folders disappear

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Kent Paul Dolan]

I have a bookmarks folder with 31 toplevel folders and two toplevel bookmarks.
Inside one of those toplevel folders are six child folders.
Inside one of those child folders are 36 bookmarks.
By coincidence or otherwise, this happens to open just above the
differently-abled "Imported IE Favorites" folder (wtf is this doing here, I
didn't request it nor do I want or trust anything labeled "IE" in my browser, I
assure you!)

Not repeatably, but very often, when this child folder is opened, used, and
closed, the surrounding sibling folders and the immediate parent folder are
displayed, but the rest of the bookmarks sidebar display goes empty.

By shutting and reopening the sidebar to force a refresh, this is often, but not
always, capable of being worked around.  Sometimes it gets completely wedged and
the only recourse that sets it right is to exit and relaunch Mozilla.

Windows 98b, fresh Mozilla launch seems less likely to display error.

Comment 1

[Kent Paul Dolan]

More info:  I've managed to have the entire display disappear a couple of times
by now.

Sliding the bookmarks window right slider widget thumbtab up and down finds
nothing, or the previously reported situation, but _clicking_ the up or down
arrows restores the display, so there is a workaround if the user stumbles upon it.

Comment 2

[David Einstein]

I see this on w2k 2001062004.
an easy way to duplicate it is in the history window.
1) spend all day browsing lots of sites and lots of pages in each site.
2) open History sidebar.
3) open a site moderately far down todays list.
4) click on a bunch of entries, reload a couple of pages, browse.
5) scroll history sidebar.
   (repeat 4 and 5 as necessary) 

Comment 3

[Paul Chen]

nav triage team:

Marking nsCatFood+, nsbeta1+, p3, and mozilla1.0

Comment 4

[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 5

[Paul Chen]

marking depends on 73508 and mozilla0.9.8

Comment 6

[Paul Chen]

Marking mozilla1.1

Comment 7

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 93920 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Chris Lyon]

*** Bug 85723 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Chris Lyon]

Resummarizing.

See Bug 85723 for same issue, different steps in Manage Bookmarks.

Bookmarksliner should fix this issue (it did for History).

Comment 10

[Blake Ross]

reassigning bugs dependent on 73508 to me

Comment 11

[Blake Ross]

fixed.