292586 - Email scam alert is blank if there's no "%1$S" in confirmPhishingUrl1 string (messenger.properties)

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Piotr Komoda]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050425 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: version 1.0+ (20050501)

Just for remember: %1$S is the brand name, %2$S is the host name of the url
being visited.

It's more like a bug for localizers then for developers, but still. Email scam
alert, that shows up after clicking some suspicious link appears blank, that is
with no message, only yes/no buttons. I've discovered it by coincidence, when
translating confirmPhishingUrl1 and confirmPhishingUrl2 I haven't placed in them
this little "%1$S" thing, because sentence "Program thinks this site is
suspicious!" sounds at least stupid in polish. For us programs can do some
things, but they aren't thinking ;) And bam! Here goes the problem. My first
thought was that maybe my translation is too long for message window, but it
wasn't. This is definitely Thunderbird's bug and can be reproduced on en-US build. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Piotr Komoda]

Attachment: Screenshot of blank alert window

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Confirming on 1.8 branch and 1.5b2.