298515 - If you type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul into the address bar it creates another toplevel bar below it.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ph3rny]

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

If you type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul into the address bar another
toplevel bar is created below where the page is displayed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Type chrome://browser/content/browser.xul into the address bar.

Actual Results:  
another toplevel bar was created where the page load should be.

Expected Results:  
It should have done nothing

Comment 1

[Ph3rny]

Attachment: This is the problem...

Comment 2

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

So, um, don't do that? There is no reason anyone would do that.

Comment 5

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

(In reply to :Gavin Sharp (use [e-mail] for email) from comment #2)
> So, um, don't do that? There is no reason anyone would do that.

I'm sorry - in retrospect this was a rather impolite response! I blame my misspent youth.

We may want to add some simple precautions to avoid this causing real trouble, but since this is rather undiscoverable it hasn't proven to be worth spending time on so far.