Bug #15935

The Bookmarks Toolbar is emtpy in Tor Browser

Added by emmapeel 2018-09-10 21:53:47 . Updated 2018-09-24 11:58:12 .

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Rejected
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Normal
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2018-09-10
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Description

I could not reproduce this ticket yet because of my setup, but the number of reports makes me think it is not a conspiracy :)

Users are complaining of having lost their bookmarks ‘menu’.
Even when the bookmarks are still inside the Tor Browser, the menu shows up empty.
If you dig around in the hamburguer menu you can find them, though.

It seems to be some forgotten menu button.

Files

Screenshot from 2018-09-18 07-56-09.png (33174 B) dedlock, 2018-09-18 08:11:33
Screenshot from 2018-09-18 07-56-37.png (55857 B) dedlock, 2018-09-18 08:11:41

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#1 Updated by intrigeri 2018-09-11 07:23:29

  • Assignee set to emmapeel
  • QA Check set to Info Needed

> Users are complaining of having lost their bookmarks ‘menu’.
> Even when the bookmarks are still inside the Tor Browser, the menu shows up empty.

What/where is that “menu”?

#2 Updated by goupille 2018-09-15 12:54:20

  • Assignee changed from emmapeel to intrigeri

I think the issue is that adding a bookmark to the bookmark toolbar doesn’t seems to work anymore. at least they are added to the ‘bookmarks toolbar’ section but they do not appears in the toolbar. so I assume ‘bookmark menu’ is indeed ‘the bookmarks toolbar’.

#3 Updated by intrigeri 2018-09-18 08:06:45

  • Subject changed from After updating to Tails 3.9, the bookmark menu shows emtpy in Tor Browser to The Bookmarks Toolbar is emtpy in Tor Browser
  • Assignee changed from intrigeri to emmapeel
  • QA Check deleted (Info Needed)

OK, I’ve looked into this and indeed there’s a concept of “Bookmarks Menu” and “Bookmarks Toolbar”. We hide both by default in Tails 3.9.

  • Once I opt-in to display the “Bookmarks Menu”, it works just fine.
  • Once I opt-in to display the “Bookmarks Toolbar” (Library → Bookmarks → Bookmarking Tools → View Bookmarks Toolbar) and add a bookmark to the bookmarks toolbar, that toolbar is displayed but it is indeed empty. To make it display the expected content I need to right-click on the toolbar, click “Customize”, and drag’n’drop “Bookmarks Toolbar Items” to the toolbar.

So I think this bug report initially used erroneous terminology. Fixing that.

Dear help desk, please try to reproduce on pristine Tor Browser outside of Tails. If you can reproduce it there, then try to reproduce on pristine Firefox 60 ESR:

  • If you can reproduce it there, then that’s Mozilla upstream material, please report there.
  • Else, please report to Tor Browser upstream.

And if that’s a Tails specific bug, please reassign to me :)

#4 Updated by dedlock 2018-09-18 08:12:19

After upgrading to 3.9 bookmars sabed in the bookmark toolbar disappear from the toolbar, but not form the menu. See attached images

#5 Updated by dedlock 2018-09-18 08:13:56

sorry, I was answering this while you were also. You see what was it.

#6 Updated by goupille 2018-09-18 11:52:53

  • Assignee deleted (emmapeel)

it is reproducible on a pristine Tor Browser on Debian-live, not with firefox 60 on the same OS.

I opened a ticket on tor browser’s bug tracker :

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27767#ticket

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2018-09-18 13:00:47

  • Status changed from New to Confirmed

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2018-09-18 13:47:38

The canonical upstream ticket is: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/27264

#9 Updated by goupille 2018-09-24 11:58:12

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Rejected