Bookmarks defaults to 'bookmark this page'

[Art Clarke]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

see also

Bug #213528, first reported on 2008-04-07

replicated in new bug report as there is probably no-one likely to pick up the info in that report.

Almost identical description to an annoying 'feature' in 3.0b5

On first instance of wanting to access an existing bookmark from the menu a dialog box is displayed offering to bookmark the current page (whatever that may be, not just home page).
Selecting 'cancel' closes the box and from that point on selecting bookmarks from the menu gives access to the existing bookmarks.

The dialog box is the same one used for 'bookmark this page' ( Ctrl+D ).

Bookmark toolbar is turned off.
This is an upgrade to Hardy.

Additional and related, the option 'bookmark this page' is about as useful and advanced as that included as Favorites in MS Internet Explorer version 3 !
In other words, it's a great big step backwards from Firefox v2.

Really bright, no direct way of adding a bookmark into any existing folders in the bookmark tree.

Doing some testing and my conclusion is that 'bookmarks' in 3.0b5 is definitely broken.

Selected (from menu bar) Bookmarks
Selected 'Bookmark this page'
Dialogue box for adding bookmark appears.
No expansion of 'Bookmarks Menu' to display the existing folder structure.
Selection left on 'Bookmarks Menu'.
Button 'New Folder' does not display any sort of dialog allowing entry of the desired name and doesn't appear to have done anything.
Button 'Done' gives no indication of what has been done.

Selected (from menu bar) Bookmarks
Selected 'Organize Bookmarks'
Display of bookmarks appears as expected but ....
There is now a folder named 'New Folder' in the bookmarks.
There is an entry at the top level of the bookmarks for the current web page as was accessed at the time of selecting 'Done'.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 3 22:53:27 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
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=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-17-generic i686

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 02:07:49PM -0000, Art Clarke wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
>
> see also
>
> Bug #213528, first reported on 2008-04-07
>
> replicated in new bug report as there is probably no-one likely to pick
> up the info in that report.
>
>
> Almost identical description to an annoying 'feature' in 3.0b5
>
> On first instance of wanting to access an existing bookmark from the menu a dialog box is displayed offering to bookmark the current page (whatever that may be, not just home page).
> Selecting 'cancel' closes the box and from that point on selecting bookmarks from the menu gives access to the existing bookmarks.
>
> The dialog box is the same one used for 'bookmark this page' ( Ctrl+D ).
>
> Bookmark toolbar is turned off.
> This is an upgrade to Hardy.
>
> Additional and related, the option 'bookmark this page' is about as useful and advanced as that included as Favorites in MS Internet Explorer version 3 !
> In other words, it's a great big step backwards from Firefox v2.
>
> Really bright, no direct way of adding a bookmark into any existing
> folders in the bookmark tree.
>
>
> Doing some testing and my conclusion is that 'bookmarks' in 3.0b5 is definitely broken.
>
> Selected (from menu bar) Bookmarks
> Selected 'Bookmark this page'
> Dialogue box for adding bookmark appears.
> No expansion of 'Bookmarks Menu' to display the existing folder structure.
> Selection left on 'Bookmarks Menu'.
> Button 'New Folder' does not display any sort of dialog allowing entry of the desired name and doesn't appear to have done anything.
> Button 'Done' gives no indication of what has been done.
>
> Selected (from menu bar) Bookmarks
> Selected 'Organize Bookmarks'
> Display of bookmarks appears as expected but ....
> There is now a folder named 'New Folder' in the bookmarks.
> There is an entry at the top level of the bookmarks for the current web page as was accessed at the time of selecting 'Done'.
>

Could you attach two screenshots showing your issue?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Art Clarke (aar-clarke)]

OK, RC1 appears to have fixed both the expansion to display existing folder structure and 'New Folder' issues.

Still get the same issue of
On first instance of wanting to access an existing bookmark from the menu a dialog box is displayed offering to bookmark the current page (whatever that may be, not just home page).
Selecting 'cancel' closes the box and from that point on selecting bookmarks from the menu gives access to the existing bookmarks.

I'm not sure how much useful information you'll get from the attached screenshot which is relates to the remaining issue.

Art C

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 11:32:09AM -0000, Art Clarke wrote:
> OK, RC1 appears to have fixed both the expansion to display existing
> folder structure and 'New Folder' issues.
>
> Still get the same issue of
> On first instance of wanting to access an existing bookmark from the menu a dialog box is displayed offering to bookmark the current page (whatever that may be, not just home page).
> Selecting 'cancel' closes the box and from that point on selecting bookmarks from the menu gives access to the existing bookmarks.
>
> I'm not sure how much useful information you'll get from the attached
> screenshot which is relates to the remaining issue.
>
> Art C
>
> ** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15057087/Screenshot.png
>

So you think its ok to close this issue? most likely it was just a
transitional thing which is now fixed?

 status incomplete

 - Alexander

[Art Clarke (aar-clarke)]

It appears that the 'expansion to display existing folder structure and 'New Folder'' issues may have been transitional.

The 'first instance of wanting to access an existing bookmark' issue remains but can be dealt with through Bug #213528

Yes, close this issue to avoid duplication of effort (and confusion!) with Bug #213528

Art C

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:29:29AM -0000, Art Clarke wrote:
> It appears that the 'expansion to display existing folder structure and
> 'New Folder'' issues may have been transitional.
>
> The 'first instance of wanting to access an existing bookmark' issue
> remains but can be dealt with through Bug #213528
>
> Yes, close this issue to avoid duplication of effort (and confusion!)
> with Bug #213528
>

OK, thanks.

 status invalid

 - Alexander

[Sean Welton (spwelton)]

Hi, I am having this same problem in FF3. My build is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0 on Ubuntu Linux 8.04. This bug's description is exactly what happens in my case too.

Thanks
Sean

[RabidNelson (ourfateisninja)]

I'm having the exact same issue on Intrepid, starting with version 3.0.5. I was hoping it would be corrected in 3.0.6, but it still doesn't work. Could somebody please look into this? It's a very frustrating problem.

[Art Clarke (aar-clarke)]

an update to my previous reports on this:

This PC has an ATI Radeon 9200 series graphics card with a widescreen
LCD monitor.
On it I'm using Thunderbird email application and was using Firefox 3.0.6
After frequent system crashes I have rolled Firefox back to 2.0.0.19
The crashes have stopped and I no longer have the issue with bookmarks.

A second PC on my network has an Nvidia graphics card with a standard
monitor.
On it is used Evolution email and Firefox 3.0.6.
This one has no issues with crashes nor with bookmarks!

So I'm starting to suspect that the problem is somehow related to either

1) the graphics card which might indicate some sort of issue between
firefox and x86 with some particular hardware or

2) software issues when Firefox and Thunderbird are both in use

RabidNelson wrote:
> I'm having the exact same issue on Intrepid, starting with version
> 3.0.5. I was hoping it would be corrected in 3.0.6, but it still doesn't
> work. Could somebody please look into this? It's a very frustrating
> problem.
>
>