Closed Bug 1613865 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Opening the set custom Bookmark as Homepage does not select on (re)open any option

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Status
firefox-esr68 --- wontfix
firefox72 --- wontfix
firefox73 --- wontfix
firefox74 --- wontfix

People

(Reporter: cfogel, Unassigned)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

Attachments

(1 file)

Attached image saveb.gif

Affected versions

  • 74.0a1, 73.0b12, 72.0, 68.4.2esr

Affected platforms

  • Windows 10, Ubuntu 19.04, macOS 10.14;

Steps to reproduce

  1. Launch Firefox, access about:preferences#home
  2. In Homepage and new windows set Custom URLS...
  3. Click on the Use Bookmark button
  4. Open the folders Bookmarks Menu - MozillaFirefox/Nightly;
  5. Pick any of the bookmarks listed;
  6. Press Enter;
  7. Press Enter to Reopen the menu (since the option is still selected);
  8. Press Enter again and again;

Expected result

  • [this could probably be viewed as an enhancement]: selected option is saved and selected;

Actual result

  • selection jumps up/down since nothing is marked as being selected/active;
  • selection is on the whole section;

Regression range

  • First bad: build_date: 2014-12-13
  • Last good: build_date: 2014-12-12
  • Pushlog: URL

Additional notes

  • steps are extended to better illustrate a scenario that the user with keyboard navigation will end up in;
  • attached recording with the issue.
Has Regression Range: --- → yes
Has STR: --- → yes

I'm unable to reproduce the "good" state in a build from 2014-12-10. I don't suspect we ever selected the current bookmark when this dialog opened. I also don't see anything in that pushlog URL that could have caused us to stop selecting an item here.

It would be nice if we did select the current item if it is bookmarked, though we don't know the path to the bookmark and a page can be bookmarked multiple times in different folders. Without storing more data we would probably have to select the first bookmark that matched which might be confusing to users who selected one in a different folder.

I'm going to mark this bug as WONTFIX due to the confusion noted in the previous paragraph and the lack of user requests for this.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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