272280 - difference in handling hyperlinks in firefox and internet explorer

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 241432

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Hrvoje Dagelic]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Twice in the last year I found myself in a situation of not being able to view a
page in firefox but the page loads fine with IE.

Suggestions:

- fix accidental backslashes in hyperlinks 

One of the common mistakes you can find in web pages is an '\' in the hyperlink
instead of an '/'. Internet explorer fixes that, Firefox/Mozilla do not.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. put an '\' in the hyperlink
2. click with firefox
3. click with internet explorer

Actual Results:  
firefox does not follow the link, internet explorer does.

Expected Results:  
firefox should follow the link.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 241432 ***