143707 - Address Book launches unwanted Popup with find: protocol

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 140009

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Address Book & Contacts, defect)

Description

[Dac Chartrand]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    2002051005

When I open a new instance of Address Book, a web browser popup appears with the
following in the address bar:

find:datasource=history&match=AgeInDays&method=is&text=0&groupby=Hostname

this subsequently leads to a "Under Construction" page at:

http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?s=find&dp_lp=7&cid=GOTO6262&dp_format=1.3&dp_p4pid=idealab&dp_own=Idealab&dp_cm=_b&dp_c1=000099

What is going on?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Close all windows.
2. Open Address Book from Window -> Address Book
3. Unwanted POP UP occurs.

Actual Results:  Unwanted POP UP occurs with 

find:datasource=history&match=AgeInDays&method=is&text=0&groupby=Hostname

in Address/URL bar.

Expected Results:  no pop up.

NB: This only happens on my tests with MAC OS 9.x - I have a Win32 box that
works fine. It is a platform bug specific.

Comment 1

[Peder Skyt]

To me it seems to be a cross-platform bug - see bugs 128897, 131159, 140797.

I believe I have narrowed the problem area down to either the History Sidebar,
or the Sidebar container itself. There is no problem without a History Sidebar.

My system: Mozilla 1.0 RC1 for Win32.

The bug seems to occur whenever the "History" sidebar is opened/populated; the
bug can be reproduced by simply opening the (closed) History sidebar... which
also occurs on opening e.g. the Address Book if "History" was the open sidebar
when Address Book was last closed.

There are two different results, depending on the specific scenario.

HOW TO REPRODUCE:
In Address Book, in the Sidebar list, make sure "History" is NOT the only
sidebar. Click the (closed) History sidebar.

Expected result: History sidebar opens, nothing more or less.

Bug scenario 1)
If NO browser window is currently open, a new browser window is opened with the
URL entry box momentarily filled with
"find:datasource=history&match=AgeInDays&method=is&text=0&groupby=Hostname", and
the status bar showing "Resolving host find...". The found site
(http://find.com/) happens to be redirected to
<http://apps5.oingo.com/apps/domainpark/domainpark.cgi?s=find&dp_lp=7&cid=GOTO6262&dp_format=1.3&dp_p4pid=idealab&dp_own=Idealab&dp_cm=_b&dp_c1=000099>

Bug scenario 2)
If a browser window IS currently open (in the background somewhere), that window
pops in front of the Address Book window. It also does so if you click anything
in the History list... but in that case the Address Book immediately regains
focus, pushing the browser window back.

Comment 2

[Dac Chartrand]

I've worked around my original bug (problem is *not* solved, THIS IS NOT A WFM)
thanks to the help of Comment #1

In the address book window. View -> Show/Hide -> Sidebar

the pop up no longer occurs.

Whoever is assigned this bug should focus on the sidebar/history observations
made by Peder Skyt.

Comment 3

[gsa]

why is data being sent to oingo.com ? is mozilla resorting to incorporating 
spyware into the browser ?

Comment 4

[Peder Skyt]

Mozilla is trying to open find.com, NOT oingo.com!

A completely different bug (see bug 145521) is that mozilla interprets a string
like "xyz:xxxxxxx" as an attempt to initiate a connection to a host named "xyz",
successfully ending up in http://www.xyz.com/ - a nicer site than oingo.com BTW :-)

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

fix for bug 76621 likely fixed this - remaining issue in bug 128322 /  bug 146619

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140009 ***

Comment 6

[Robert White]

*** Bug 148565 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe