227508 - en-US.jar is different among platforms.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176041

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Pall Sigurdsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

There are some windows specific-strings in en-US.jar file bundled with windows 
version of firebird 0.7, at least in:
locale/en-US/communicator-platform/pref/platformPrefOverlay.dtd (and maybe
others i dont know) mentioning default browser settings.

In the Linux version they are missing. This means that when localization is
created using en-US.jar from the Linux binaries there will be an error will be
produced complaining about missing strings when going to tools -> Options ->
General.

These strings really should be in en-win.jar






Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start translating mozilla using the jars bundled with the linux-version.
2. Open firebird on a windows machine with the translated files loaded.
3. Go to tools -> Options -> General

Actual Results:  
Tools -> Options -> General window doesnt appear but instead gives an error:

XML Parsing error: Undefined entity
Location: chrome://browser/content/pref/pref-navigator.xul
Line Numer 146, Column 21:

<caption label="&defaultBrowserGroup.label;"/>

Expected Results:  
The General tab should open as normal

As a workaround i have reloaded the windows en-US.jar files in mozillatranslator
and done the translation based on them. But if there are more out of sync files
there might be more bugs lurking.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

yeah, we know it sucks, its getting fixed slowly

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176041 ***

Comment 2

[Pierre Chanial]

Pall: I don't really remember the state of 0.7, but I think that
defaultBrowserGroup.label was ifdef'd out in linux builds. Now this entity is
back on linux even if it is unused.
This entity is taken from pref-navigator.dtd and not from
platformPrefOverlay.dtd, that we ship but don't use.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change