[16558] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.2.15: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Dec 11 11:08:44 1998
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 11:08:32 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Arthur E Housinger <mouse@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199812110323.WAA02297@eos-15.mit.edu>
Your comments about Netscape not knowing which folder to use as the
personal toolbar got me thinking, and I tried a little experiment.
First,I deleted my existing Personal Toolbar Folder as usual. (As noted in
my previous message, normally it will come back the next time I start
Netscape.) Then I created a new folder (I left it with its default name,
"New Folder") and didn't put anything in it. Highlighting the New Folder,
I selected Set As Toolbar Folder from the View menu. (The folder icon
changes from a file folder to a book.) I then closed the Edit dialog and
exited Netscape.
When I restarted, it had not regenerated the Personal Toolbar Folder, nor
had it placed any items in the New Folder. In-ter-es-ting.
So that's one solution. Of course, now I have to have an extra folder I
don't want, which is just as bad ....
-Todd
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Arthur E Housinger wrote:
> I followed this link, where I was told the following should exist in the
> View menu of the "Edit Bookmarks" dialog:
>
> > Set as Toolbar Folder/Turn Off Toolbar Folder makes the selected
> > folder the container for personal toolbar buttons or, if the personal
> > toolbar folder is selected, turns the selection off so that there are
> > no personal toolbar buttons. Each bookmark and bookmark folder in the
> > personal toolbar folder is represented by a button on the personal
> > toolbar; folders are displayed as pop-up menus.
>
> This feature does not work.
>
> >From the little messing I did, I also noticed that Netscape will allow
> you to repeatedly set a folder as the toolbar folder. This suggests to
> me that maybe the "Edit Bookmarks" dialog is having troubles identifying
> a folder as a personal toolbar folder.
