255505 - XML Parsing Error: syntax error

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Madis Kalme]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

When browsing a folder on a local computer and double-clicking some html page or
an image then pushing "Go back one page" or <backspace> or some other shortcut
the following message is outputted in a pink box:
XML Parsing Error: syntax error
Location: file:///C:/Programs/fASM/Proged/asm2html/sample/
Line Number 1, Column 1:

300: file:///C:/Programs/fASM/Proged/asm2html/sample/
^
The last two lines are red like an error, but it does not make sense: if I go to
the SAME address again, everything works.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Browse to any folder which has at least 1 file that Mozilla can show in itself
   (no PDF or EXE)
2. DoubleClick on it or some other way make it open in the same window
3. Push back-button or <Backspace> or your mouse back-button

Actual Results:  
You can see an error and "Location: file:///X:/Full_Address" where X is the
drive you are browsing and Full_Address the route to your folder.
While writing about the bug I held one such window open and after some 5 minutes
I tried going to that address again. Somehow it was deleted and the browser said
in a message on screen that the file cannot be found. Unable to reproduce it
again.

Expected Results:  
It should have shown the list of files in that folder like it did in step_1 or
like it will do when you go to addressbar and hit <Enter>

I was using the Modern theme, but I think this is irrelevant because it does not
change the looks of the browsing area.

Comment 1

[timeless]

there's nothing security related here.

Comment 2

[Madis Kalme]

When in some situation it deletes Folders exploiting this bug on other peoples
computers can do much damage.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 4

[Madis Kalme]

I haven't been able to reproduce this bug in Mozilla application Suite 1.7.8+,
Firefox 1+ and Seamonkey any version. This may be deleted.

Comment 5

[Jason Bassford]

No specific bug / patch referenced as the fix.

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