1563451 - 68 regression: javascript bookmarklets can no longer be invoked by their keyword

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1552141

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[bughit]

• win7
• firefox 68.0.0 rc1
• new profile
• create a javascript bookmarklet with a keyword javascript:void alert('%s');
• invocation via a click works
• but via the keyword does not (performs a google search)

@bzbarsky I found Bug 1478037, is it related to this?

Please fix this in 68.

Comment 1

[bughit]

also broken in 69.0b1

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

@bzbarsky I found Bug 1478037, is it related to this?

I really doubt it.

Does toggling the "browser.urlbar.quantumbar" to false make things work right for you? As far as I can tell, that's the issue here: the new url bar code is not handling this correctly.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And in particular, I have a javascript: bookmarklet that I use for bisection results, and I see it being broken on current nightly but working correctly when I toggle "browser.urlbar.quantumbar" to false...

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And it looks like I didn't notice this earlier because I toggled the pref off due to bug 1550025 and then forgot to re-enable it when that was fixed.... :(

Unfortunately, the chances of this being fixed in 68 at this point are pretty slim; rc1 means that only serious stop-ship issues would get fixed, and I doubt this makes the cut.