29770 - javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(...) does not work

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[Anthony James Merryfield]

Takes you to the top of the page rather than 'back'. Also If you go so far as 
to order on the site [You don't need to submit your order!] the page where you 
enter your details does not work. Works in IE 5.0/Netscape 4.6...

Also:

javascript:window.external.AddFavorite
('http://www.onlyfinebeer.co.uk/','Onlyfinebeer')

does not work, is this IE specific?

Comment 1

[rogerl (gone)]

The history.back bug is a dup of  bug 21373, and since that's well known I'm 
moving the second half of the bug report off to the Bookmarks component - I 
guess there are security issues here though?

Comment 2

[Andreas Franke (gone)]

Changing summary from "javascript:history.back()" to

"javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(...) does not work"

to indicate that this bug is not an unrecognized dup of bug 21373.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** Bug 38446 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[don]

Move to M20 target milestone.

Comment 5

[don]

Oops.  Should be M21.

Comment 6

[Blake Ross]

Reassigning 79 Bookmarks bugs to Ben.  I was told this was going to be done 
shortly about two months ago, but it clearly hasn't been.  I think that's long 
enough for all these bugs to remain assigned to nobody.

Feel free to filter all this spam into the trashcan by looking for this string 
in the message body: ducksgoquack

Comment 7

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

This is IE specific. No plans to implement.

If webpages want to add bookmarks, they can use a signed script to access
XPConnect, then get the bookmarks service and call 'AddBookmark' on it. 

Comment 8

[Jesse Ruderman]

See bug 66248 for continued discussion.

Comment 9

[timeless]

*** Bug 66248 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

verified wontfix

Comment 11

[Alfonso Martinez]

*** Bug 214653 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** Bug 278691 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 281466, same thing for setting homepages from script.