282756 - Firefox ignores network.enableIDN set to false

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 261934

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

[Camilo Arboleda]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; es-AR; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041108 Firefox/1.0

After changing the value of "network.enableIDN" to false at about:config, it is
ignored after restarting firefox.
It happens with Firefox 1.0 downloaded from your web server.
Changing it at all.js doesn't work either.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open about:config
2. Find network.enableIDN key to 'false'
3. Go to "http://www.shmoo.com/idn/"
4. The spoof fails
5. Restart mozilla
6. Go to "http://www.shmoo.com/idn/"
5. The spoof works again

Actual Results:  
The unicode IDN works

Expected Results:  
IDN should be disabled.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 261934 ***