On 05/24/2012 05:00 PM, MCBastos wrote: > An annoyance. I recently decided to give a try to the new native-UI beta > version of Firefox for Android. (By the way, yes, it IS very very fast, > and it looks very nice...) > > Since all my bookmarks are in Sync, being shared between Seamonkey, > desktop Firefox, portable Seamonkey and the old XUL-interface Android > Firefox, I added this new one to Sync... > > Apparently the bookmarks engine in the new Portable Firefox has some > bugs. First, it sorted all my bookmarks alphabetically. That wouldn't > have been TOO bad, most of them are sorted anyway. But... > > ...it doesn't seem to consider separator boundaries when sorting. For > instance, I have a bookmark folder with the links for several webcomics. > They are separated thematically; computer/geek strips in one group, > general-interest strips in another... if I tell desktop > Firefox/Seamonkey to sort the folder, it treats each group as a separate > sorting domain, and sorts the bookmars *inside* the group without mixing > the group. > > The new Mobile Firefox did something very weird: it apparently ignored > the separators for sorting purposes, but left them in place anyway. So > if I had a list like this (female names in a group, male names in > another group): > > Alice Eve Mallory Peggy | Bob Charlie Dave Trent Walter > > It would sort the folder like this: > > Alice Bob Charlie Dave | Eve Mallory Peggy Trent Walter > > ...keeping the separator between the fourth and fifth bookmarks. Which > does not help at all, of course. > > I have been fixing my bookmarks list by hand... I just hope this is a > first-sync issue only, and it won't mess everything again next time I > use Mobile Firefox.
My experience with Sync on FF for Android has been rather negative so far. It's not reliable, it's slow to propagate updates to other instances, it doesn't work consistently. Therefore I only use it to carry my desktop bookmarks to the phone via a SM test profile on the desktop machine. I don't want it to screw up my bookmarks in the production profile, which I have no doubt it would manage to do. You may find this article interesting, it gives some background information on the implementation. http://www.morbo.org/2012/05/history-and-bookmarks-in-firefox-for.html Sync on FF for Android certainly isn't a trivial thing to get right, but it isn't ready for prime time yet in my view. -- Christian _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
