Firefox problem

I see from the log of previous bug reports that other people have commented on this module's strange behavior in Firefox. I think from Gurpartap Singh's response that he must not be seeing what is actually happening here, or he would understand why it should be fixed. In response to a previous bug report, he wrote, "Well, this was intentional by it's original author, although the description doesn't describes much about it." And in response to an even earlier report, he replied, "It's meant to be so ;) Still browser configurable."

The behavior that I'm seeing is NOT browser configurable, and I can't imagine why it would be "meant to be so."

Firefox has a feature that makes it possible to open multiple web pages within different tabs in a window. I suspect that this is what Gurpartap thinks people were reporting. If this module was making Firefox open the bookmarked page inside a different tab, that would be fine, and it IS browser configurable. However, opening the page in a scrollable, closable pane is a different thing entirely.

I am attaching a screenshot that shows what my Firefox browser looks like after I click on the bookmark that the Bookmark Us module has created. It shows a narrow column in the left that displays a tiny portion of the bookmarked page. In the right portion of the browser window, the full page that I bookmarked is displayed.

There are several problems with this:

(1) Since the narrow column on the left is in a separate pane (and not a separate tab) from the rest of the window, there is no way to choose to open it up all the way, and the column is too narrow to display the page properly.

(2) There is also no way to see the URL of the bookmarked page. It doesn't show up in the navigation bar.

(3) While it is easy to navigate between TABBED pages (several of which I have open in the right-hand pane), there is no way to navigate between them and the narrow pane on the left that was created by clicking on the bookmark. It stays open (but practically unreadable, because the pane is too narrow), regardless of which tabbed page I select on the right. Even if I close all of the tabbed pages in the right-hand pane, that pane will stay open.

The tabbed pane on the left in Firefox is intended for use in displaying LISTS of pages (such as the history of recently-visited pages, or a bookmark listing). It is NOT intended as a place to display entire web pages, which is why the bookmark should not be opening the web page there.

I hope Gurpartap will examine what is actually happening here and reconsider his decision not to fix this bug. In its current form, this problem with Firefox makes it impossible for me to consider using his module on my websites.

I should note that the same behavior is also happening with the addtofavorites module.

FYI, I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.5 on a Mac running OS 10.4.10.