1090207 - Invalid RSS feed in Thunderbird but not in Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1055047

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[anneonyme017]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0
Build ID: 20141013200257

Steps to reproduce:

I tried to subsribe to a new RSS feed.
Right click on "Blogs & News Feeds" then left click on "Subscribe".
Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/klaire/XacY
Left click on "Add".



Actual results:

The following message was displayed : "The feed URL is not valid"
Left click on "Verify the validity of the Feed URL" : http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A//feeds.feedburner.com/klaire/XacY
The following message was displayed : "Congratulations! This is a valid RSS feed."


Expected results:

I should have been able to subscribe to this RSS feed (it is possible to do so within Firefox).

The feed validator also displayed: "This feed is valid, but interoperability with the widest range of feed readers could be improved by implementing the following recommendations [...] line 5, column 10: title should not be blank".
That is why I think Thunderbird doesn't like to subscribe to a RSS feed with no title.
Would it be possible to bypass this bug by assigning a default title when no title is provided ?
In Firefox, the default title is the feed URL.

Comment 1

[alta88]

No, title is mandatory and the publisher needs to fix it.  See also the error console.  Lack of unique id/link causes duplication problems in Tb in ways that do not affect Fx.