237160 - “Add to bookmark” name field filled with spaces for long string

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 237224

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Fen Wu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

When add the current website to bookmark, if the string for the Name field is
very long (eg. > 2^16=65536 characters) in the "Add to Bookmarks" popup window.
The Name field just shows spaces. Firebox may either set the string length limit
and monitor it or show the exact input in the Name field.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Generate a long string that longer than 65536 characters in Notepad or other
word processor and copy it to buffer
2. Click “Add to Bookmark” in Mozilla Firefox
3. Use Ctrl^v copy the buffer into the Name field of “Add to Bookmark” popup window
4. Notice the filed is just showing spaces.
5. Copy all the Name field out to a word processor, notice the string is OK.

Actual Results:  
The Name field is filled with spaces

Expected Results:  
The Name field is filled with the paste string or a warning message indicates
string is too long.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237224 ***

Comment 2

[Alex Hirzel]

v

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