258957 - Feeds from betanews.com are saved as BetaNews.Com files on windows platforms

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[AK]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040911 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: version 0.8 (20040906)

Feeds from betanews.com are saved as BetaNews.Com files on windows platforms,
this may not be desireable.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add http://www.betanews.com/rss2
2. Check TB profile
3.



Expected Results:  
It might be better to save as something non executable on windows platforms.

Comment 1

[AK]

I tested another case related to this, if someone decides to make a rss feed
title like <title>something.msf</title>, thunderbird retrieves the first article
but drops the feed from "News and Blogs" when restarted, it is, however still
listed under Manage Subscriptions.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

Confirming, but reducing severity. I can't see people trying to execute files in
their profile folders, nor someone titling a feed with .msf.

Comment 3

[alta88]

fix is in bug 930118.