293178 - firefox doesn't open javasript popups which are linked to sites in which german letters are included (ä,ü,ö-->ae,ue,oe). Tested which Firefox 1.0.3 de

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 293177

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Error Console, defect)

Description

[roebbu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

Firefox opens:
onclick="MM_openBrWindow('anfahrt_schuetzenhaus.htm','','width=340,height=340')"/></a></p>

but he doesn't open: 
onclick="MM_openBrWindow('anfahrt_schützenhaus.htm','','width=340,height=340')"/></a></p>

Microsoft Internet Explorer opens both links.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.doing a javascript popup (tested with onClick) and link it to a site in wich
ö,ä, or ü is included.
2.result: firefox doesn't open js onClick popups with german letters (html;
&uuml; etc..)
3.

Actual Results:  
failure site 404

Expected Results:  
open the onClick popup

it's a fresh installed Windows Xp PC, the problem occures on other pcs too.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 293177 ***