164218 - Imported IE Favorites are no bookmarks

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 163389

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Mark Stals]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721

After installing Mozilla 1.1b, the Imported IE Favorites do not point to the
corresponding bookmark, but to a file on my hard disk.

PS: This was not a problem with Mozilla 1 (sorry, no build number)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open IE6 (version 6.0.2600.0000.xpclient.010817-1148) and goto
http://www.bbc.co.uk
2. Create a bookmark called BBC Online
3. Do a full install of Mozilla 1.1b (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721) without deleting a previous installed version.
4. Open Mozilla 1.1b
5. In the menu choose Bookmarks|Imported IE Favorites|BBC Online




Actual Results:  
Contents of the Navigational Toolbar:
file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/Mark%20Stals/Favorites/BBC%20Online.url

Contents of the Browser Window (as displayed):
[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Modified=D08F1E8E833EC1018E


Expected Results:  
Contents of Navigational Toolbar: http://www.bbc.co.uk/

Contents of Browser Window:
the BBC home page

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

> Contents of the Navigational Toolbar:
> file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/.../Favorites/BBC%20Online.url
duplicate of bug 163389

> Contents of the Browser Window (as displayed):
> [DEFAULT]
> :
> :
> Modified=D08F1E8E833EC1018E
duplicate of bug 56765

Reporter, please go to http://www.mozilla.org/quality/ and help
us reduce the number of duplicate bug reports.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163389 ***

Comment 2

[Wesha]

Reporter, we would appreciate if you read Bug Writing Guidelines at 

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/bug-writing-guidelines.html

Your bug is much much better than a lot of those here... but... it's a
duplicate. :( We would really appreciate if you pay more attention to Bugzilla
bug search feature next time. 

Thank you for your help in testing Mozilla!


v.

Comment 3

[Wesha]

P.S. How To Search Bugs Tutorial:

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/beginning-duplicate-finding.html