1401929 - Unable to add about:* or file: as a new tile in Activity Stream

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect, P5)

Description

[Fanolian]

Attachment: Activity Stream error message for about:* URLs

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170920220431

Steps to reproduce:

0. Enable Activity Stream.
1. In about:newtab, top site section, click "Edit" > "Add"
2. Try to add about:crashes as a new tile


Actual results:

I cannot add it as a new tile. An error message pops up and says "Valid URL required".


Expected results:

I should be able to add about:* as a new tile. 
I can do this with Activity Stream disabled. The about:* tile will appear in Activity Stream but it cannot be opened (which I will file another bug for this).

Comment 1

[Fanolian]

(In reply to Fanolian from comment #0)

> I can do this with Activity Stream disabled. The about:* tile will appear in
> Activity Stream but it cannot be opened (which I will file another bug for
> this).

Filed bug 1401932.

Comment 3

[Ed Lee :Mardak]

Bug 1401932 was resolved wontfix, so no need to add them either.