Long elements in live RSS feeds are truncated and no popup box with the complete element appears

[Miguel Diago]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Long titles in live RSS feeds appear truncated in Firefox (see attachment), so it is impossible to read the complete title of a post unless its webpage is visited.

I suggest a yellow box to appear when this happens with the complete title of the post in it (again, see attachment).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 2 14:28:28 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Dan Allen (dan.j.allen)]

I would very much like to see both the full title of the bookmark (and in the
case of Live Bookmarks the full title of the article) followed by whatever else
people vote to tack on (URL, description). It is very annoying, especially with
Live Bookmarks, to not be able to get the full title of the article. When
browsing bookmarks, I get something like:

Gmail's New Features - Atom feed and "inline"...

Now I have to load the article just to find out the full title. It would be
nice if the tooltip showed something like:

+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Gmail’s new features - Atom feed and “inline” Contact list |
| http://example.com/article/gmails_new_features.html |
+------------------------------------------------------------+

My vote is to not use the description because I think it will make the tooltips
too verbose and cluttered.

[Ashmodai (ashmodai)]

I'd definitely love to see the full title on hovering the livemark. News items
regarding specific versions of software tend to make little sense if the version
number gets capped and you need to open the livemark just to find out whether
it's about a new version or an old one.

Same problem with W3C news items ("X..." could be litterally ANYTHING they have
produced lately).

[Thomas-scheffler-hotmail (thomas-scheffler-hotmail)]

I definitivly need this feature to get the headline of an article without
clicking on the live bookmark. All the information is there: Why don't we use
it? I prefer the tooltip method and therefor voted for this bug.

[Gavin Sharp (gavin-sharp)]

*** Bug 260013 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Gavin Sharp (gavin-sharp)]

*** Bug 274436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Noam Tamim (noamtm)]

Comment copied from bug 260013. Please comment on this comment:
===
It is a duplicate of that bug, except that it is more specific (and has more
votes.. ).
Thing is, in the comments of 253912, you guys talk about showing the title and
url in the tooltip; The reporter of that bug, and myself, have requested showing
the description.
Is it possible to rephrase both bugs (retaining their votes) as "allow user to
set the contents of Live Bookmarks tooltips (title|url|description)"?
===

[Jindrich Pozlovsky (jindrich)]

And what bold title and normal description under that? Something like this:

<tooltip>
<b>Full title of Live Bookmark</b>
<br />
Full description of this Live Bookmark bla bla bla...
</tooltip>

[Asa (asa)]

I don't think we'd block the release for this but we would certainly consider
taking a fix if one happens.

[Me-at-work (me-at-work)]

possibly instead you could have a popout menu (like reading a folder) to show
links inside the description? this would be useful for the wikinews.org feed,
because it's just a blogger feed with the link to the wikinews post in each
post. as well, it'd be nice for 'more info' slashdot stories or any other such
site where the contents of the post are mainly for link value.

another extension of the popout menu is a 'popup' button at the bottom, so
instead of going to the site you click popup and in a popup window you see the
full text of the description, saving a page-load to read more. and yes, some
option somewhere to make the popup open in a new tab.

[Pgorod (pgorod)]

Let me just suggest an additional enhacement to be done with this (not a
replacement for what is already being discussed). Ok, maybe I'm too lazy to open
a different bug, but I think if somebody looks into one thing, it will be quite
easy to do the other.

When we go to Bookmark Manager, and expand the Live Bookmark in the Tree View,
we get three columns: Name, Location and Description. For some reason,
description is always empty. I think it should have the descriptions of items
contained in the RSS feed.

Perhaps this could solve the discussion going on in this bug: the tooltip shows
the full title and address, the descriptions go in the bookmark manager.

Notice it is a lot quicker to check out all the descriptions at once in the tree
view than to wait for lots of tooltips.

[Peter-vanderwoude (peter-vanderwoude)]

*** Bug 253893 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Philringnalda (philringnalda)]

*** Bug 341808 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[chtitux (chtitux)]

see attachment 225909
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=225909&action=view

Please change :
OS -> All
Hardware -> All
Description : "Display RSS Live Bookmark Description oh hovering it" or something. i don't find it when I create a clone : the descr is "wrong"

[Mike Connor (mconnor)]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

[Philringnalda (philringnalda)]

*** Bug 396951 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Tbertels+bugzilla (tbertels+bugzilla)]

There's an extension which does it well : http://joliclic.free.fr/mozilla/boox/en/index.php

Maybe it could help fixing this bug (at least for the mockup).

[Aubrey-activestudios (aubrey-activestudios)]

If only Boox rendered HTML in the description, or at the very least stripped it. Other then that, I think that functionality this makes LiveBookmarks a whole lot more accessible.

[Ria-klaassen (ria-klaassen)]

*** Bug 427859 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Miguel Diago (mdm)]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

Long titles in live RSS feeds appear truncated in Firefox (see attachment), so it is impossible to read the complete title of a post unless its webpage is visited.

I suggest a yellow box to appear when this happens with the complete title of the post in it (again, see attachment).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Jun 2 14:28:28 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 12:44:56PM -0000, Miguel Diago wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> Long titles in live RSS feeds appear truncated in Firefox (see
> attachment), so it is impossible to read the complete title of a post
> unless its webpage is visited.
>
> I suggest a yellow box to appear when this happens with the complete
> title of the post in it (again, see attachment).

If this is really not available atm it sounds like a reasonable
approach.

We should search bugzilla.mozilla.org for eventual duplicates
first. please post if the id if you find duplicate candidates

 affects firefox
 status incomplete

 affects ubuntu/firefox-3.0
 status incomplete
 importance wishlist

 - Alexander

[Kristian-zarse (kristian-zarse)]

On Windows XP it works (current version). But not on Linux (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.14) Gecko/2009090217 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Firefox/3.0.14). So it does not seem to be a general Firefox issue but an implementation issue.

But I agree to the other comments: It's very annoying to see cropped titles only when going through the bookmark list with the mouse.

Kristian

[Mak77 (mak77)]

3.0.14 is NOT current version.

[Kristian-zarse (kristian-zarse)]

Yes. And I didn't say that. I only said that I had the current version on Windows (which I could't check for the number at this time).

And you are right: After the update to 3.5 on Linux (did not work automatically) it's working there as well.

So actually I wonder why this ticket is still shown as NEW. As the main issue is resolved it should be changed to RESOLVED, shouldn't it? Additional enhancements could be put into a new ticket.

Kristian

[Mak77 (mak77)]

Because the original ticket is not really clear if this is about tooltip on live bookmarks contents or the live bookmark itself, so i morphed to bug to cover what is missing (the latter).

[Mike Conley (mconley)]

The front-end team has decided that this is not a very useful change, so we'll not be fixing it.