268035 - file://C|/... URLs can ruin use of -chrome

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Nigel McFarlane]

From bug 236701.

Bad typing of file://C|/ URL (with two /'s not three)
seem to confuse Firefox orWindows to the point where
the -chrome option ceases working.

That side-effect is a blocker for XUL development on this platform.

/// might be correct and // technically wrong, but people
will type // a lot, and the consequences are subtle,
confusing and disabling.  The file: syntax is confusing enough as
it is with C| substituting for C: and lots of slashes for
apparently no reason.

Firefox should do forgiving URL fixup if the wrong number
of /'s after file: are supplied. See also bug 133700.

Comment 1

[Nigel McFarlane]

Test case steps too subtle to reproduce easily.

Closing here until I stumble across it again.

- N.

Comment 2

[Nigel McFarlane]

Whoops that bug 263701 not bug 236701