266202 - the about: page gives an XML error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 242436

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Michelle Allen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

if you set the start page in Thunderbird to about: the page gives this error:

XML Parsing Error: undefined entity Location:
jar:resource:///chrome/toolkit.jar!/content/global/about.xhtml Line Number 71,
Column 23:
<a id="mozlink" href="&releaseURL;">&brandShortName; 0.8</a> ----------------------^

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set the start page to about:
2. Restart Thunderbird
Actual Results:  
Recieved the error message printed above

Expected Results:  
Displayed the about page

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I tried to reproduce this with the aviary build and saw nothing in 0.8 or 0.9.
However, I just tried a trunk build ("0.6+") to debug another problem, and this 
symptom was immediately evident because I still had "about:" set as the Mail 
Start Page.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Whoops -- didn't look closely enough, this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242436 ***