402397 - Firefox cant open filename containing spaces

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[ps]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071023 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071023 Firefox/2.0.0.9

Firefox cant open filename containing spaces no matter if I use quotes or escape spaces by \ .

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

You have to escape a Space with %20

Comment 2

[ps]

Which is a painful workaround when you have 100 chars long files with 10 spaces in it.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

That is no workaround, it's the way to go because Firefox is no filemanager and can only access files through the file:// protocol handler which only accepts valid URLs and you have to escape spaces in URLs.

Comment 4

[ps]

The point is not whether its workaround or not; the point is that use filenames
with spaces are PITA with firefox. Your advice of simply changing spaces to %20
does not work.

/usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable

it seems that firefox needs also file:// and the_whole_path. Normal files dont 
need it.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported using Firefox 3.0 or older, which is no longer supported. The bug has also not been changed in over 500 days and is still in UNCO.
Reporter, please retest this bug in Firefox 3.6.10 or later using a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles. If you still see this problem, please update the bug. If you no longer see the bug, please set the resolution to RESOLVED, WORKSFORME.

This is a mass search of unconfirmed bugs that have no activity on them, so if you feel a bug was marked in error, just remove the CLOSEME comment in the whiteboard within the next month.

Comment 6

[ps]

seems to work now.