Bookmarks Branch Landing Offers Many ImprovementsWednesday March 26th, 2003Users of recent Mozilla nightly builds have been benefiting from the major architectural changes that have been made to Mozilla's bookmarks code (bug 196756). These improvements were made on a branch which landed on the trunk late on Monday night. Several longstanding issues have been fixed, including the lack of a root level folder (bug 36339) and the inability to have two differently named bookmarks pointing at the same location (bug 51683). Site icons in the Bookmark Manager and Bookmarks Sidebar tab are back (bug 113574) and columns in the Bookmark Manager now display the correct data (bug 124819). Separators are also working much better, no longer taking up the entire width of the Bookmark Manager (bug 121249) and even supporting optional labels (bug 121053). Note however that the landing of the bookmarks branch has caused several regressions in Phoenix (bug 199328). ...to make the often critisized bookmark handling better! still missing options to sort bookmarks in a folder and a context menu for the bookmark bar. And opening the bookmarks in another tab/window by middle clicking... You might find it useful: http://white.sakura.ne.jp/~piro/xul/_tabextensions.html.en ...and the ability to synchronize the bookmarks like the netscape addressbook! that would be such a great feature Do these fixes apply to Netscape 7.02? If they do, how would one go about implementing them? I'll bet that the powers that be will take their sweet time putting this stuff in there, and it'd be great if one could have a way to put it in there ourselves. "Do these fixes apply to Netscape 7.02?" As Netscape 7.02 isn't open-source, you wouldn't be able to implement the fixes yourself. I suppose you could try applying them to Mozilla 1.02, upon which Netscape 7.02 is based. "If they do, how would one go about implementing them?" If you were implementing the fixes on the 1.0 branch you would apply the patches and compile. And hope it all works, as they were designed for the trunk. "I'll bet that the powers that be will take their sweet time putting this stuff in there" I don't think the powers that be (or anyone else for that matter) are planning to apply the fixes to the 1.0 branch. "it'd be great if one could have a way to put it in there ourselves." Wait for the next Netscape version, which will probably be trunk-based. Alex Just wait for next major Netscape release based upon mozilla 1.4.1 I believe. You don't think 1.2.1 and 1.3.1 were anomolies?!? :-) My most-wanted bookmarks bug has long been http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51207 51207- the update bookmarks bug. I really miss that feature from NS 4. is it now possible to edit bookmarks from the menu without opening the manager? One of the very few things I miss about explorer. No, only current Phoenix nightlies have this feature. You may vote for or contribute to bug 19437 if you want this in Mozilla. Stefan Congratulations to the developers! This is a huge step forward for the Mozilla Project. You guys should be very proud. |