793467 - Session bookmarking ("Bookmark this group of tab") omits repeated entries

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15a1 ID:20120921110141 c-c:f181aef1ee3f m-c:3c68fdd4f77a

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make sure that among your current tabs, one URI (I suggest "about:") is repeated on two or more tabs, not necessarily contiguous.
2. "Bookmarks → Bookmark this Group of Tabs" (Type a distinctive "Name" and select a suitable "containing folder" — or leave them where they're put by default.
3. Open the Bookmark Manager
4. Find and open the folder representing the newly saved group.

Actual results:
Only one of the duplicate tabs in step 1 above has been saved.

Expected results:
The session should have been saved exactly like it was, with no changes.

Additional info: (Rationale)
I regularly save my current session so that I can do something unrelated, but come back later (maybe much later) to it — or to parts of it. Each of these sessions may include from several tens of tabs to a couple of hundred, and as separators between groups of tabs with similar favicons (for instance between Bugzilla "Main Page", "Email Preferences", "My Votes", "Keywords" etc. OT1H and individual bugs currently being closely followed OTOH) I add an "about:" tab, which is distinctive, economical, and prettier to look at than a plain blank tab. I expect that these "separator tabs" won't be high-handedly removed when I save a session.

Comment 1

[therube]

Might be related to Bug 789468 - SeaMonkey fails to add new bookmark if URl already bookmarked.

So perhaps Bookmark Group is using the same methodology as (currently) Bookmark This Page does, where if it used the methodology as File Bookmark does, it might "just work"?

Comment 2

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to therube from comment #1)
> Might be related to Bug 789468 - SeaMonkey fails to add new bookmark if URl
> already bookmarked.
> 
> So perhaps Bookmark Group is using the same methodology as (currently)
> Bookmark This Page does, where if it used the methodology as File Bookmark
> does, it might "just work"?

I don't know. Both "File Bookmark" and "Bookmark this Group of Tabs" open a "Properties" dialog so you can say where you want to add the new Bookmark. "Bookmark this Page" always adds it at the bottom IIRC. But that could be just a coincidence, I suppose it's probably three distinct routines.