101325 - Browser attempts to load "%u" on startup.

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Cmd-line Features, defect)

Description

[Daniel Ramaley]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913
BuildID:    2001091323

When i start the browser, it tries to load "%u" regardless of whether i have it
set in the preferences to open a blank page, home page, or last page visited. Of
course "%u" is not a valid web site, and an error occurs ("www.%u.com could not
be found. Please check the name and try again." when not using a proxy, redirect
to "http://%25u/" when using junkbuster). The first few times i launched the
browser, the problem did not occur. It only occured on subsequent launches. And
the problem only occurs on the initial browser window. If i open a new navigator
window the problem does not occur.

I am running an RPM install of Mozilla 0.9.4. Before installing it, i completely
removed the previous version and renamed my ~/.mozilla directory. Once Mozilla
was installed and had been run once, i copied my previous bookmarks file to the
new ~/.mozilla directory. The only other unusual configuration i have is that i
run the junkbuster proxy. However, the problem occurs both with and without the
proxy enabled.

Deleting my ~/.mozilla directory and having Mozilla recreate it surprisingly
does not completely fix the problem--I can briefly see in the address bar "%u"
but then "http://home.netscape.com/" loads instead (even if i set the
preferences to start with a blank page and restart the browser).

I have had this problem on 2 machines. The only cause i can think of is that the
problem did not occur on either machine until after i had used the browser to
visit an anonymous ftp site.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch mozilla.


Actual Results:  Mozilla Navigator tried to load "%u", which does not exist.

Expected Results:  Opened a blank page or the home page, depending on preference
settings.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Reporter: 
Have you tried a new profile ? (run "mozilla -profilemanager" and create a secon
test profile)

Comment 2

[timeless]

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Comment 3

[Daniel Ramaley]

I have tried deleting my profile and relaunching Mozilla so that it creates a 
new profile. Creating a new profile did not fix the problem. I have not tried 
using the profile manager.

Comment 4

[Kurt Swanson]

I have used the exact same setup as Daniel, with the same results scenario.  I
cleared both .mozilla, removed mozilla completely from my system (rpm -e) and
installed the latest rpm build (2001091712) to no avail...

Comment 5

[Kurt Swanson]

No sooner did I commit my last comment than I discovered the problem--somehow a
"%u" got added to the command for mozilla in the Gnome "quicklaunch" applet.  I
had just recently recreated the contents of the "quicklaunch" when the problem
appeared.  How that happened I do not know; I could not recreate the problem.  I
would guess that this is not a mozilla bug and thus this should be marked as
not-a-bug, upon Daniel's response.

Comment 6

[Daniel Ramaley]

After reading Kurt's post, i looked into the menus on my system. I use AfterStep 
but sure enough, the menu file had a %u added to it. This was not the case with 
previous versions of Mozilla; i have been using RPM versions i think since 0.9 
and whenever a new version is released i upgrade by uninstalling the previous 
version, removing my profile, and installing the new version. The upgrade from 
0.9.3 to 0.9.4 was the first time i encountered the %u problem.

Comment 7

[Christopher Blizzard (:blizzard)]

It's been fixed in 0.9.4-2.

Comment 8

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

rs vrfy...don't think i've encountered this recently...

Comment 9

[Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley]

A user reported that this bug is occuring again in Firefox 1.0 on the support
forum <http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=179050>.  Due to bug 231720
the user with this problem gets directed to http://www.whatuseek.com/ on startup.