103500 - Location bar history list messes up file URLs without file:// prefix

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 92132

(SeaMonkey :: Location Bar, defect)

Description

[Stephen Moehle]

File paths typed in the location bar are not kept in the location bar history
properly.  They are stored as http:// URLs.

To reproduce:

In the location bar, enter a file URL as a path without the file:// prefix such as:

/home/user/web/index.html

Mozilla loads the page and changes the location bar to show:

file:///home/user/web/index.html

If you dropdown the menu for the location bar and look at the location bar
history, you see that the URL is listed there with as http:// rather than
file://.  If you pick this entry, nothing happens.  No error messages or
anything which is probably a separate bug of Mozilla being stubbornly unhelpful.

Tested with Mozilla trunk build 2001100606 on Linux.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing hewitt.  Sounds like this is either his or History:Global.

Comment 2

[Chase Tingley]

Confirming on linux with 0.9.5 and a recent cvs build (1025 or so).

-> URL bar for a first cut

Comment 3

[Chase Tingley]

I take it back; this is a dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92132 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass-verifying Duplicate bugs which haven't changed since 2001.12.31.

set your search string in mail to "CitizenGKar" to filter out these messages.