Reproducability: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Import IE Favorites by creating a new profile or quitting Mozilla, adding this line: user_pref("browser.bookmarks.import_system_favorites", true); to prefs.js, and restarting Mozilla. Expected Results: The Imported IE Favorites appear in Mozilla in the same order as they appear in IE. Actual Results: The Imported IE Favorites appear in seemingly random order. I'm not sure if the order used to be exactly as in IE, but the order got messed up about the same time as bug 130079 was introduced. This still occurs in trunk build 2002042908.

WFM using build 2002-04-29-branch on WinNT, and with PREFS.JS set to force import. In fact, everything's in alphabetical order rather than the semi-sorted order in which they appear in IE itself. OS dependency? Corrupt BOOKMARKS.HTML?

If I force import in prefs.js, I get a *second* Imported IE Favorites folder that is somewhat sorted. The items are not in alphabetical order, but the folders appear at the top of the list and bookmarks not in a folder appear at the bottom. The other Imported IE Favorites list is still totally unsorted. This is in Windows 98. I completely uninstalled and re-installed Mozilla (including creating a new profile) just a few days ago, so I doubt I have any corrupted files. The IE Favorites in IE might appear to be "semi-sorted", but in fact you can order them in any order you want. This bug requests not folder ordering or alphabetical ordering, but an exact mirroring of how the bookmarks appear in IE at the time of import.

Minor point, but we should be making changes in user.js, not prefs.js.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 21263 ***