Closed Bug 1600630 Opened 5 years ago Closed 5 years ago

Occasional "File not found" error when trying to open a page in Firefox via BBEdit

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
70 Branch
Platform:
Desktop
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: info, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0

Steps to reproduce:

I edit the code in the html doc (Bbedit on the Mac Sierra on my desktop computer), I go to "markup" in menu and "preview in firefox" to see how the page looks.

Actual results:

it produces a "File not found" page instead of the page I'm working on.

Expected results:

The web page should have been displayed. The code has not broken the page as I can try it again and it works. There appears to be some change I made that causes the error but I haven't figured it out what it is yet. This has been occurring for several months.

  1. What is the exact address shown in the address bar, and what is the exact location of the file on your system?
  2. When does the "File not found" error occur — when you choose "View Page Source" in Firefox after the file has already been opened and displayed, or when you choose "Preview in Firefox" in BBEdit?
  3. Ideally, take a screenshot of the window with the error message and upload it by clicking Attach New File above the description here.
Flags: needinfo?(info)

Hi,
I had to wait until the problem occurred again as I don't know what caused it. I edited a page while on my computer (changed the code surrounding a phone number making it clickable) and it brought up a page with an error message for "File not found".

Here is the file on my computer:
file:///Users/lorrie/Documents/a-LorisWebs.com/contact.html

I don't have the page URL with the error on it as I must have overwritten it.

However, this bit of code is not the problem. The code varies with the same problem occurring.

This error occurs when I click "markup" and then "Preview in Firefox". But not all the time.

I just clicked on this same page again (markup and then Preview) and the page displayed fine, i.e., if I try it twice it works.

BTW, I have the latest version of Firefox.

Lori

Flags: needinfo?(info)

Unfortunately, I don't think there's anything actionable here. From what I've gathered, it seems BBEdit is sporadically telling Firefox to open a file that doesn't exist. It's why I asked if the link in Firefox's address bar differs from the actual location of the file on disk. The request for the screenshot was to confirm if that's the case, or the error message appears elsewhere, as might be the case if you were working with iframes for instance.

Since this is almost certainly not a Firefox bug and you can't update to the latest BBEdit because your operating system is too old, I don't see what can be done here. Maybe if you contact the authors of BBEdit for support they'll have some suggestions.

OS: Unspecified → macOS
Hardware: Unspecified → Desktop
Summary: I'm a web designer and use Firefox to view pages as I write the code. Recently it started giving me a file not found error after I edit some code and go to "view source" (not always) → Occasional "File not found" error when trying to open a page in Firefox via BBEdit

I didn't realize that it could be a BBEdit problem. I'm preparing to upgrade to Mojave in the next few weeks and upgrade BBedit at the same time, so thanks for your input.

Marking this issue as Invalid, based on Comment 3

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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