242436 - Setting about: as Thunderbird start page results in XML Parsing Error

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[riscky]

Using about: as the Thunderbird start page produces an invalid XML file.



XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/en-US/global/about.xhtml Line Number
69, Column 23:<a id="mozlink" href="&releaseURL;">&brandShortName; &version;</a>
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Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 266202 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

As I noted at the dupe -- I see this symptom in the trunk builds of TB -- 
currently "0.6+" for 11/08 -- but not in the aviary builds (0.8, 0.9).

Comment 3

[Michelle Allen]

(In reply to comment #2)
> As I noted at the dupe -- I see this symptom in the trunk builds of TB -- 
> currently "0.6+" for 11/08 -- but not in the aviary builds (0.8, 0.9).

Well I am using 0.8, not a trunk build

Comment 4

[riscky]

Hmmm... I have this issue with aviary builds as well... I'm using 0.9 release...

version 0.9 (20041103) for OS X and I have the parsing error...

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 295499 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I've had my start page set to "about:" since I first investigated this bug, but 
haven't seen the symptom of this bug until I started today's nightly build.
Last build I used that didn't manifest the bug was the 0515.  Windows 2000.

Comment 7

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Attachment: Patch

Comment 8

[Scott MacGregor]

what is releaseURL used for?  In browser, this just points to mozilla.org and
has nothing to do with releaseNotes per say. 

Comment 9

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> what is releaseURL used for?  In browser, this just points to mozilla.org and
> has nothing to do with releaseNotes per say. 

It's used on the about: page for the "Thunderbird [version]" link. If you think
this is not worth fixing it (since the link would need to be updated for 1.1,
1.2, etc.) we could also just mark this bug invalid since there is no real UI to
see the about: page (Firefox has a url bar, Thunderbird not).

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

(In reply to comment #9)
>we could also just mark this bug invalid since there is no real UI to
> see the about: page (Firefox has a url bar, Thunderbird not).

I like that idea :)

Comment 11

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

Ok ;)

Comment 12

[riscky]

Such a shame (being marked as invalid)... however about: should display
about:blank instead of the parsing error.

Comment 13

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

I don't think there is a easy way to do that (would require too much code for
little use).