264540 - Using atom feeds in life bookmarks doesn't work

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Heiko Adams]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041014 Firefox/0.10.1

It seems that Firefox (in some cases?) is unable to use atom feeds as life
bookmarks. http://www.computerbase.de/rss/news.atom is a good example because
loading this feed fails.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to http://www.computerbase.de/rss/news.atom
2. Navigate to the new (life bookmark) folder

Actual Results:  
Loading that feed fails

Expected Results:  
Firebird should load the feed an show the items

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

That's not actually an Atom feed. It's an RSS feed with the root element changed
from <rss> to <feed>, with all the RSS elements then thrown into the Atom
namespace. There's really no more reason to discover an
"http://purl.org/atom/ns#":item (a completely undefined element) than there is
to discover a "http://example.com/asjklj/foo#":jjijk element.

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