290455 - Clicking on "Live Bookmark feed failed to load" should display more details about the problem

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[Percy Cabello]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

When there's an error loading live bookmarks, clicking on the item "Live
Bookmark feed failed to load" should display a predefined web page like:

chrome://global/content/netError.xhtml?e=dnsNotFound&u=http%3A//www.kskskks.com/&d=www.kskskks.com%20could%20not%20be%20found.%20Please%20check%20the%20name%20and%20try%20again.
(when browser.xul.error_pages.enabled is true)
 providing more information about what the problem is.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a live bookmark that doesn't load successfully, like
http://www.windowsitpro.com/Common/RSS/SQLServer.xml
2. "Live Bookmark feed failed to load" message appears.
3. No other information is provided.

Actual Results:  
No details on what the error was are displayed.

Expected Results:  
Display some detail about the error. Like if it was a page not found error so
user can check the address, or if there was a parsing error user may try to use
a different feed (in another format) of the same page, or contact the web master
about the problem if it's a malformed RSS/Atom.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

make different message for fail to load (file not present)
and fail to parse (malformatted file)

->NEW

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

CC Phil Ringnalda
can you have a look at this Phil ?

Comment 3

[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

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

See Bug 278247, this probably can be DUPED or depends on that

Comment 5

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.