198396 - v1.3 upgrade adds extra slash to Locations/urls stored for local files

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[rustedprong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

All of the bookmarks for locally stored files on my mac were fine in 1.2.1
However, after installing the new (1.3) OS X version, an additional slash
appears to have been added to these kinds of bookmarks. All other bookmarks are
fine.
For example, the Location:
file://Macintosh%20HD/Users/troelstrup/J2SE1.3.1/docs/index.html
has become:
file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/troelstrup/J2SE1.3.1/docs/index.html

I've manually corrected all of the incorrect Locations. The upgrade (or more
precisely, running Mozilla for the first time after installing the new version)
appears to be the only event that could have caused this and I had not done any
other task but download, install and run.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In v1.2.1 make a bookmark to a locally stored file
2. Upgrade to 1.3
3. Look at locations in Bookmarks->Manage Bookmarks

Actual Results:  
See details

Expected Results:  
Not inserted an extra slash at the beginning of the uri for bookmarks of locally
stored files.

Comment 1

[timeless]

*shrug* file://nameforlocalhost/rootpath/ is the format for an url, which means
the old url was broken.

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 197379 ***

Comment 3

[benc]

How are bookmarks for file URLs stored?

I though they were stored as URLs, not as file pointers. If so, I don't know why
there was any change to the text of the string.

Older Mozilla releases used CFM, and Mozilla 1.3 uses Mach-O. CFM saw file paths
as HFS-style Mac OS paths. Mach-O uses UNIX style paths.

If you cannot get a file URL to work, you should look at 197379.

The new URL should be broken, you need to delete:
             -----------------------------------|
       [xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
file:///Macintosh%20HD/Users/troelstrup/J2SE1.3.1/docs/index.html

If you delete just the "/", and leave the drive lable, we don't look at the
"hostname" field (where drive name ends up), so that would work, but is not a
correct file URL for the file.

-> bookmarks, until someone over there explains why there is the change the user
 describes.

Comment 4

[Frankie]

Mac CFM RIP.

Comment 5

[benc]

REOPEN:
This was in theory fixed. The qa of that bug got messed up, but I'm on the case now.

I'll QA this since I do have a Mac.

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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