281506 - change 'network.enableIDN' to false has no effect after closing and reopening Firefox

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 281365

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Description

[Mel Brown]

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

At http://www.netsquirrel.com/articles/mozilla_spoofing.html, click on the
paypal.com link. The demo Javascript code spoofs the URL and sends you to his
page that displays simply "meeow." Use about:config to set 'network.enableIDN to
false, and Firefox no longer falls for that trick. 

Now exit all Firefox tasks and start Firefox again. You can use about:config to
verify that the value is still set to false, but go back to the above site and
click on the paypal.com link once again. You'll get the "meeow" screen again.
Not good. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. At http://www.netsquirrel.com/articles/mozilla_spoofing.html, click on the
paypal.com link. 
2. The demo Javascript code spoofs the URL and sends you to his page that
displays simply "meeow."
3. Use about:config to set 'network.enableIDN to false, and Firefox no longer
falls for that trick. 
4. Now exit all Firefox tasks and start Firefox again. You can use about:config
to verify that the value is still set to false. 
5. Go back to the above site and click on the paypal.com link once again. 
6. You'll get the "meeow" screen again. Not good. 

Actual Results:  
Firefox fails to remember the value of 'network.enableIDN' even though
about:config shows it properly set to false.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should not have gone to the "meeow" URL.

I tried creating a user.js file in C:\Documents and
Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles with a command to
set the value to false, but Firefox never even accessed the user.js file. I
determined that fact by using Windows Explorer with the Date Accessed column
enabled.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

is already fixed, update to the current branch nightlies (builds after
2005020719 have the fix)

Firefox 1.0.1 Builds
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-aviary1.0.1/

Mozilla 1.7.6 Builds
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.7/



*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 281365 ***