285357 - Bookmark Misdirection

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Wesley Cockrum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

Clicking on [bookmarks] - [Firefox and Mozilla Links] - [Firefox Start Page]
results in http://www.google.com/firefox/ url in address bar and 404 Not Found
error (The requested URL /firefox/ was not found on this server.) being returned
by Google.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Bookmarks
2.Firefox Mozilla Links
3.Firefox Start page

Actual Results:  
http://www.google.com/firefox/ url in address bar and 404 Not Found error (The
requested URL /firefox/ was not found on this server.) returned by Google

Expected Results:  
http://start.mozilla.org/firefox/ should load as indicated in the Propeties
Dialog box

This is occuring with the saferfox theme. I have not tested with other themes. I
will select severity as Major although I consider it to be a Critical issue when
trying to convince new users about security. Loading a url not specified in the
properties dialog could be serious risk. Therefore I will send a security email
also to reference this bug.

Comment 1

[Wesley Cockrum]

I have switched back to the default theme and still produce the same exact results.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Not a security exploit, clearing confidential flag.

The redirection is intended, Google is hosting the Firefox start page. Somehow
your prefs got an extra '/' at the end, and that's being copied as part of the
redirect. "http://www.google.com/firefox/" is not found, the real start page is
 "http://www.google.com/firefox"

Remove the trailing slash in firefox/ from your prefs and it will work fine. I
don't know how you got in this state, perhaps it was that way in an earlier version.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change