1958948 - Manually navigating to about:preferences#* displays a blank page

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect, P3)

Description

[RuslanSemchenko]

Attachment: bandicam 2025-04-07 21-32-17-011.mp4

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I went into the settings and entered a certain text or symbols through ? and quickly restarted the query, as a result it froze and part was deleted

Actual results:

some of the symbols remained, although logically there should be a correct update to those that were by default

Expected results:

logically the URL should be the default since there is a transition to a new URL section

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

Websites can't link to the Firefox settings or open it with arbitrary parameters, and so the page becoming blank if you pass it arbitrary URL bits is a bug but not a security bug. The user can also always open the page reliably from the main UI.

Comment 2

[RuslanSemchenko]

Okay I understand but overall will this be fixed?