281466 - Start page can not be set with javascript

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[kh_naba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040615 Firefox/0.9

Following javascript to set start page does not work.

<a href="http://mysite.com/#"
onClick="this.style.behavior='url(#default#homepage)';this.setHomePage('http://mysite.com/eng/');"><b>Make
Mysite your start page</b></a>


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Should set the start page in preference.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

There's a very good reason for this: its almost universally abused.  This is an
IE-only "innovation" that will most likely never be implemented in Mozilla core.

Comment 2

[Alex Tanner]

Attachment: 'Add to IE Bookmarks' Script

Comment 3

[Alex Tanner]

What do you think of the 'javascript:window.external.AddFavorite' command,
unique to IE, that is used to open the bookmarks window and request that you
bookmark the current page (as in 'Add To IE Bookmarks Script' attachment)?

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

That its abused often on less-reputable sites and that we don't want it?

Comment 5

[Alex Tanner]

(In addition to comment #3)
There is a keyboard shortcut for this in Mozilla (Ctrl + D). Couldn't people
fake the keypress and thus abuse the function?

Comment 6

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

No, we differentiate between events from trusted and untrusted content.

Comment 7

[John Vandenberg]

*** Bug 279850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 345706 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 29770, same thing for adding bookmarks from script.

Comment 10

[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