297715 - Firefox Exports Bookmarks to Internet Explorer Incorrectly

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Bill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

When exporting firefox bookmarks to Internet Explorer, "&" is turned into "&amp"
in all cases.  Reason this is a problem for Firefox is even if you set it to be
your default folder, you still have IE Favorites in your start menu...so to
correct this, you delete all of your IE Favorites and import Firefox Bookmarks
back in...this allows you to open Firefox from your Start Menu Favorites.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

Firefox stores its bookmarks as a HTML page. Ampersands need to be escaped in
HTML as they are used for displaying special characters &amp is the correct
replacement for any ampersands in the discription of websites.

Comment 2

[Olivier Jeanpierre Voutat]

It doesn't happen only for &. I live in Brazil and in Portuguese, we use a lot of "accents" like ~^´` and they are all replaced in a wierd way when I export them from mozilla. I use Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and IE 6. I think this is because you used UTF-8. For accents support you should use ISO8859-1.