847876 - Preserve bookmark folders on import from Chrome

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Data Providers, enhancement)

Description

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Common complaint seen on the support forums is that we dont preserve folders on import from Chrome and stock, instead we get a flat listing of unsorted bookmarks. It would be nice if we were smart enough to preserve folders.

Comment 1

[Tom Klein]

I think this one can be closed:

*) Importing was switched off on 23+ because Android no longer supported the global version of importing bookmarks, and it looks like Chrome dropped their support for their specific content provider at the same time:

https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+blame/master/chrome/android/java/src/org/chromium/chrome/browser/provider/ChromeBrowserProvider.java#346

so importing's probably not coming back.

**) Chrome never exposed the folder heirarchy data in any case:

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=281828

so we couldn't do this for Chrome's data if we wanted to.

***) I can't find any documentation on Samsung Internet's content provider for bookmarks (maybe that means it's no longer supported?) but their provider on an API 21 device doesn't include any columns that would provide heirarchical information (only "is this item a bookmark or a folder"), so I think we're out of luck there as well.

See also the discussion at bug 1205824.