268805 - Gnome drag and create bookmark on desktop error

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Doug Goldstein]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0RC2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0RC2

If you grab the favicon in the address bar and drag it to your Gnome desktop and
release, Firefox & Gnome will work together and create a shortcut to that
website. However, if you double click that icon (if you were viewing a .html)
Gnome will refuse to open the file because it's possibly unsafe because the
contents are a "desktop configuration file" but the file extension reports it
was a "HTML page". 

If you manually append ".desktop" to the end of that file on your desktop, then
double click it. Firefox starts right up and goes right to that bookmarked page.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. drag favicon to desktop in Gnome
2. double click icon
3.

Actual Results:  
error message saying file contents doesn't match extension.

Expected Results:  
Opened Firefox to the desired page.

I'm running Gentoo Linux. I currently have Gnome 2.8, however this problem
occured in Gnome 2.6 as well.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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