Closed Bug 330933 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Bookmarks Manager folder location broken in "Find" since 4.x

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 171575

People

(Reporter: dub, Unassigned)

References

()

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1 (This significant usability bug affects ALL versions of Firefox, Seamonkey and the Mozilla Suite.) In Netscape 4.x, the Find function in the Bookmarks manager showed the folder that matching bookmarks were found in. (TRY IT to see how incredibly useful this is - the old Netscape bookmark manager ia MUCH better!) This is extremely useful with large and complex bookmarks files, especially when they are deeply nested. (And don't we all have those these days? Especially those of us that work on things we don't want the whole world to see on deli.cio.us?) This greatly helps real-world bookmarks use - I often want to know what other links are in the same folder, but today, I have to load the bookmarks file itself in a the browser or an editor to find other links in the same folder as a bookmark I just "found". (For instance, a find on "antenna", returns an amorphous pile of all links containing "antenna" but totally obscures any organization I had imposed on thos links by filing them in folders, for instance, "2.4 GHz Antennas", or "WiFi Antennas" or "Weatherproof Antennas", or whatever. If I could *see* the containing folder structure (preferably the entire tree), I could tell which folder likely has the information I'm looking for.) It's amazing to me that this dramatically superior usability feature from the old Netscape has never made its way into any Mozilla product. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Netscape 4.x. (Make sure you have a big, hairy, deeply nested bookmarks.html file for it to paw through.) 2. Open Bookmarks Manager, and do a Find/Search for a word in a link in some deeply nested folder. 3. Notice that in NS4, you can actually tell *where* the bookmark you found is located in the folder heirarchy you constructed for the express purpose of showing important relationships in greoups of bookmarks! This information is simply NOT AVAILABLE in the Bookmarks Manager for ANY Mozilla product. Expected Results: Bookmarks manager should display folder location for each found bookmark. Take a cue from the way NS4.x did this - find some way to let bookmarks be shown in a treeviewer so thier organizational context is clear.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 171575 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.