942463 - Regression: cannot add bookmarks to homescreen

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Awesomescreen, defect)

Description

[Mark Tyndall]

I used to be able to add a bookmark (a lovingly created and curated bookmark) to a home screen.  I can't any more.

The alternative, to navigate to a URL and then add it to the home screen, is fairly poor in comparison.

Let me explain the use case for directly adding bookmarks:

On a mobile device, a screen full of quick links is incredibly useful. But, I want to make sure I'm clicking on the right link, so the label is of the utmost importance.

So if I'm stuck with the URL title (as I am now), I might get
Weather Corp (TM) Weather - /place 1/ Saturday weather
Weather Corp (TM) Weather - /place 2/ Saturday weather
etc.

which get truncated on the home screen in a really unhelpful way (and are wrong for 6 days of the week).

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

This is being fixed by backing out bug 933428

Comment 2

[Mark Tyndall]

Confirming that this works in the just-released Fx Beta.
Thanks!