803827 - Can't edit bookmarks' Smart folders

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Thierry Régagnon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121010144125

Steps to reproduce:

1. I went to the Bookmarks Manager.
2. I started a search from the search field.
3. Once the results appeared, and the filters bar appeared, I saved my search to a Smart Folder.
4. The newly created Smart Folder is now in the Bookmarks Manager sidebar. I tried to find a way to edit the search keyword. I can't find it in the contextual menu, or anywhere. I can only edit its name.


Actual results:

There is no way to edit the search keywords used for a Smart Folder.


Expected results:

We can edit the Smart Folder name, we should also be able to edit its search keywords.

Comment 1

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

Thierry, it looks like saving the bookmarks searches to Smart folders was taken out of Firefox. I may be missing something but I didn't see it as an option.  

This thread on Support says that it is possible with an addon, though: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/951511  

I'd like to close the bug, unless you feel strongly it should stay open as an enhancement request.

Comment 2

[Thierry Régagnon]

Lizz, it indeed looks like the Smart Folders have been removed from Firefox. (See: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750544)

We have less and less options to manage big numbers of bookmarks. :/ 

You can close this bug. It is the whole feature that I would strongly like to come back.

Comment 3

[Liz Henry (:lizzard)]

Thanks Thierry. Understood!