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Bookmarks are buried under unnecessary menu levels #21726

Open Stokestack opened 2 months ago

Stokestack commented 2 months ago

Steps to reproduce

Have a bunch of bookmarks in desktop Firefox, and have syncing turned on.

Expected behavior

Minimal steps are required to get to bookmarks.

Actual behavior

Bookmarks are buried four menus deep.

Device & build information

  1. Open the menu
  2. Scroll menu all the way to the top (it defaults to the bottom for some reason) to get to Bookmarks.
  3. Tap Bookmarks.
  4. Tap the sole menu entry: Desktop Bookmarks.
  5. Now you're faced with three more menu items. so tap one of those to finally see some bookmarks.

Attachments: Screen grab of this attached, along with screen shots.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/46438240-5213-4221-a1b0-8dfeb90c8069

bookmarkSuggestion

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Stokestack commented 2 months ago

On the desktop, the bookmarks sidebar suffers from one of these unnecessary levels; as reported here. It's a much bigger problem on mobile, where there are more levels and no way to avoid them.

data-sync-user commented 2 months ago

➤ Norberto Andres Furlan commented:

Stefan Smagula

data-sync-user commented 2 months ago

➤ Stefan Smagula commented:

The way bookmarks are synced between mobile and desktop creates this problem. With the Mobile Boookmarks Evolution work we considered improving this area, but decided to focus on the core mobile bookmarking experience vs the bookmark syncing experience.

To improve bookmark syncing the Sync team, possibly the desktop team, and mobile developers will need to collaborate on simplifying the experience—in both directions.

Stokestack commented 2 months ago

Thanks for the reply. I would really prefer to use Firefox, but this is a big enough pain in the ass that I will just go back to Safari until it's straightened out. I don't see why there is any difference in structure between the mobile and desktop bookmarks. It's exacerbated by the fact that mobile FF frequently "forgets" what bookmarks level you were previously in and makes you start all over from the (needless) top levels.

Regardless, thanks for your work.

data-sync-user commented 2 months ago

➤ Stefan Smagula commented:

Re the user comment: Mobile Bookmarks Evolution fixes one of the two problems the user highlights: the app will no longer “forget” which bookmark folder you were using. The last bookmark you saved in persists until you save in another folder.

Stokestack commented 2 months ago

Thanks, but the problem isn't where the user saved a bookmark. It's simply which bookmark folder was last open, typically to use a bookmark (not save one). For example, this is very likely to be the "Bookmarks Toolbar" folder, where people tend to keep their most-used bookmarks... and is currently three menu levels deep.