Closed Bug 284997 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

When adding new bookmark, it allows duplicates

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

x86
Windows XP
enhancement
Not set
normal

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 220049

People

(Reporter: cgrant, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 I'm not sure if this should be classed as a bug or a feature, but there seems to be a deficiency in the way Firefox deals with duplicate bookmarks ... or the way it doesn't deal with them. When adding a new bookmark to an existing folder, Firefox doesn't seem to search for previously entered bookmarks that exactly match the new link. A 'match' would be on the page title string and/or the embeddded url in the bookmark. I can drag the same url over and over to a bookmark folder and Firefox allows this to happen -- making a new bookmark each time. It should warn that the url already exists. Moreover, when I drag a url from one folder (eg. an imported set of Internet Explorer bookmarks) to another folder, Fiefox doesn't seem to have a way to 'overwrite' duplicates and instead creates many duplciates. I have hundreds of such urls and don't see a way to clean the mess up save by doing it by hand. Firefox also allows a user to create a folder with the same name as an existing folder name. I searched for an extension, but only found one that was supported in an earleir release. I'm not even sure if that old extension would help me identify and delete these duplicates. What I would like to see are two (2) new features: 1. warn or disallow a duplicate bookmark to be collected. 2. a method to identify and delete duplicated bookmarks. This 2nd feature would further have an option to seach all folders and identify nested dups. When dups are found, present the user with a record set that has a checkbox at the beginning of each row that they can toggle on/off that is finally used to purge the dups. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Method #1: 1. Drap/Drop current url onto the Bookmark Tookbar 2. Drap/Drop current url onto the Bookmark Tookbar (again) Method #2: 1. Open "Manage Bookmarks" 2. Create a new folder called 'Test' 3. Create another new folder called 'Test' (this should be disallowed) Method #3: (after performing Method #1 and #2 above): 1. Open "Manage Bookmarks" 2. Drap drop one of the duplciated bookmarks added in Method #1 to the first 'Test' folder. 3. Drap drop the remaining bookmarks added in Method #1 to the first 'Test' folder. Notice that you now have 2 identical bookmarks under the 'Test' folder? This should be disallowed. Actual Results: End up with duplicated bookmarks with no automatic method of identifying nor removing them. Expected Results: Disallow duplicates to be saved.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 10198 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
I am cleaning up bug 10198 it is for the suite. String for spaming detection 20050502:08:58:19
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
20050502:08:58:19 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 220049 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Assignee: vladimir+bm → nobody
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → bookmarks
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