264185 - Cannot use a local file as my home page

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Paul Steier]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

I wan to use my Netscape 4.71 bookmarks as my home page but Firefox tries to
open http://program%20files/Netscape/Users/psteier/bookmark.htm . If I past the
URL in the address bar it opens fine.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select Tools->Options
2. Enter the URL of a local HTML file in the General/Home Page/Location(s): item
3. Hit OK
4. Hit the Home icon or Select Go->Home

Actual Results:  
Tries to display a bogus URL created using the supplied file name


Expected Results:  
Rendered the HTML file

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Firefox uses the vertical bar to separate multiple home pages that open in
separate tabs, but doesn't object to a colon after the drive letter:
file:///c:/whatever works just fine.

Comment 2

[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