1220305 - moz-extension URIs containing : fail to load

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 719905

(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Alex]

Attachment: open-my-page-button.xpi

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/47.0.2526.27 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I attempted to port a chrome extension I have to WebExtensions and ran into an issue with tabs not opening properly when I appended JSON objects to the URLs after a #, I made a reduced test case which I attached and describe below:

In Firefox Nightly I called:

    chrome.tabs.create({
      "url": chrome.extension.getURL("my-page.html") + '#blah:'
    }); 


Actual results:

A new tab should have opened showing my page with the hash containing "blah:"


Expected results:

A tab opened which said "The address isn't valid"