Upgrade to ESR 68-based browser makes description field of bookmarks empty

As reported on our blog (https://blog.torproject.org/comment/283838#comment-283838), starting with ESR 68 the description fields in bookmarks are empty. Switching back to 8.5.5 (hence ESR 60) solves that.

added TorBrowserTeam201910 component::applications/tor browser ff68-esr owner::tbb-team points::0.25 priority::medium resolution::not a bug severity::normal status::closed tbb-9.0-issues tbb-9.0.1-can tbb-regression type::defect labels

Hrm. It seems that field basically got removed: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/ (thanks cypherpunk for the link). I wonder whether there is more to it for us to do here.

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Points: 0.5 to 0.25

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Reading I wonder whether there is still something we can do here:

Removed the description field for bookmarks. Users who have stored descriptions using the field may wish to export these descriptions as html or json files, as they will be removed in a future release.

Replying to gk:

Reading I wonder whether there is still something we can do here: {{{ Removed the description field for bookmarks. Users who have stored descriptions using the field may wish to export these descriptions as html or json files, as they will be removed in a future release. }}}

Maybe user-facing changes like this should be included within the Tor Browser release notes when migrating between (ESR) versions.

But, for this case, I don't think we should re-add/re-implement this functionality, so I'll close it as not-a-bug.

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Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to not a bug

closed

changed time estimate to 2h

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#31731 (closed)