Closed Bug 418205 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

[UI] "Bookmark this page" dialog usability

Categories

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

enhancement
Not set
normal

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()

VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: cpuidle, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021704 Minefield/3.0b4pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021704 Minefield/3.0b4pre The "Bookmark this page" dialog currently has usability issues. More specifically, the "Folder" dropdown and the arrow besides it show very similiar information- dropdown less and different styling. Suggestion: 1) Remove the Folders dropdown and replace with pre-expanded folder structure 2) Make the bookmark dialog resizable for navigation in bigger collections Reproducible: Always
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
I use tags, so I probably don’t need the folder structure to be expanded all the time.
Mhhm. Then why not have none or both expanded by default and have the expansion state remembered across visits? Also for tags it's different- the tags thingy doesn't show duplicate information, does it?
Also- the dialog is not resizable- making adding bookmarks in more complex trees a pain.
I disagree, the bookmark arrow shows all the folders, which has a scroll bar so you can view everything. I wouldn't mind it being resizable, but I think it is fine the way it is. Changing to enhancement and confirming.
Severity: normal → enhancement
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Component: Bookmarks → Places
Keywords: access
QA Contact: bookmarks → places
Sorry mixed up the bug - resetting changes.
Keywords: access
One bug per issue, please. Always showing the full tree is WONTFIX, outright. It isn't useful enough, especially as people use tagging and autocomplete more than hierarchies. Resizable might be a dupe, also not sure if we have a good solution for resizing panels yet, but please file a new bug if there isn't one already.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Being resizable is Bug 418864.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h". In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows: Tools | Message Filters Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New" Conditions: Body contains places-to-b-and-h Change the action to "Delete Message". Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top. Click OK. Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter. Gerv
Component: Places → Bookmarks & History
QA Contact: places → bookmarks
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