309003 - with the extra ? at the end of the URL the '<<' in the title bar shows up as a "square"

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[jimmygoon]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

www.jimmygoon.com/site/

I was testing out logos... by using the URL

www.jimmygoon.com/site/?name=jg1

but I noticed in the title bar the '<<' symbol (one symbol) was coming up as the
"unknown" square icon. I just added a "?" on the end of the url to see if thats
what is was... and sure enough... it was.

IE does not do it and its not my PHP skillz. (its doesn't touch the title bar ;))

good luck . thank.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try this: www.jimmygoon.com/site
2. notice the '<<' symbol in URL
3. try this: www.jimmygoon.com/site/?
4. notice the LACK OF THE '<<' symbol

Actual Results:  
... the square icon shows up instead of the << symbol

Expected Results:  
it should have just displayed the '<<' symbol

(none)

Comment 1

[Simon Montagu :smontagu]

I wasn't able to reproduce this bug. I suspect it would go away if you added a
charset declaration to your pages, e.g.
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.3 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.x or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.