267551 - Latest Headlines live bookmark never finishes loading

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

found using 2004110309-0.11 bits on linux fc2. marcia also confirms seeing this
on today's Mac OS X firefox build.

1. best to start Firefox with a new profile in order to see this as it's part of
the default bookmarks.

2. in the bookmarks toolbar, click the "Latest Headlines" live bookmark.

observe: the popdown menu says "Live bookmark loading..."

3. dismiss the popdown and few minutes for the live bookmark to finish refreshing.

4. click the "Latest Headlines" again.

expected: a long list of headline articles should be displayed.

actual results: the popdown still says "Live bookmark loading..."

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

SO we need to redirect the current URL to something? What's the plan? Time is short.

Comment 2

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Probably relates to the live bookmark feed URL being a Not Found host..
http://fxfeeds.mozilla.org/rss20.xml

Checkin was: 

2004-10-29 21:38 ben%bengoodger.com 
mozilla/ browser/ locales/ en-US/ profile/ bookmarks.html 	1.1.2.6 
AVIARY_1_0_20040515_BRANCH  	1/1  
update feed url too

fxfeeds.mozilla.org needs to exist in DNS for the current url to work.

Comment 3

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

reassigning to myk after speaking with ben.

Comment 4

[Wolf [:wolf]]

Asa marked blocking+ in Comment #1. Remarking. :-)

Comment 5

[Steffen Wilberg]

The checkin mentioned in comment 3 was a follow-up to bug 266457.

We either need a proper redirect to the previous feed url
(http://fxfeeds.mozillazine.org/rss20.xml) or a feed of our own.

Comment 6

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

In order to do this I need the URL to which this URL should be redirected, which
cannot be http://fxfeeds.mozillazine.org/rss20.xml, since that will overload
mozillazine.  Previously the content was almost all some BBC or Yahoo news feed,
wasn't it?  If so, that's an option.

Comment 7

[Jonas Jørgensen]

http://fxfeeds.mozillazine.org/rss20.xml itself is a redirect to 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/front_page/rss091.xml. So 
the answer to Myk's question would be Yes.

Comment 8

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Fixed.

Comment 9

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

Verified with Windows FF branch build 2004-11-06-07-0.11

Latest Headlines feed is functional

Comment 10

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Verified fixed with Mac FF branch build 2004-11-06-06-0.11.

Comment 11

[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