847176 - Cannot name newly created folder when storing bookmark

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 752936

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[rsbrux]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.2; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130215130331

Steps to reproduce:

Tried to save a bookmark
Used "choose folder"
Attempted to create new folder, in which to store the bookmark.



Actual results:

"New Folder" is created at the selected point in folder tree (even if "New Folder" already exists).
However, focus is lost, and the newly created folder cannot be renamed.
I have experienced this issue in the last several versions of Firefox, running under various versions of Windows.
See
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/941991
for further details.


Expected results:

The newly created folder should have remained selected, allowing me to type in a new folder name.

Comment 2

[rsbrux]

This is *not* a duplicate of 697649.  I am not using Firefox sync.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to rsbrux from comment #22)
> 847176 is *not* a duplicate.  I have experienced this behaviour on 4
> different Windows PCs running everything from XP to Windows 7, where Firefox
> sync was disabled.

Any other add-on in common among the 4 PCs?

Comment 4

[rsbrux]

I had Xmarks installed on all of them, but continued to have the problem after disabling it.  Now I find that the problem goes away if I start FF 19 in safe mode.  On one machine where Xmarks is not installed, the problem does not occur (either under FF18 or FF19). This suggests that the problem is in fact due to the plug-in.  Thanks for your support!

Comment 5

[rsbrux]

Uninstalled Xmarks from the WinXP x64 machine, but problem persists.
Windows 7 machine without Xmarks works OK.  Examining for other differences in add-ons.

Comment 6

[rsbrux]

The culprit in my case appears to be "Auto-Sort Bookmarks 1.6"
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-sort-bookmarks/?src=api

Comment 7

[rsbrux]

Disabling the "autosort" option in "Auto-Sort Bookmarks 1.6" seems to be enough to restore normal Firefox operation.

Comment 8

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

duping to bug 752936 that is more generic