363490 - Preview fails ungraciously with non-well-formed feeds

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 350365

(Firefox Graveyard :: RSS Discovery and Preview, defect)

Description

[Simon Bünzli]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/2006120418 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Currently, when previewing mozillaZine's feedhouse feed, the preview page is empty and quite broken (see attachment 235868 [details]). Without looking at the Error Console, it'd be slightly difficult to judge whether Firefox or the feed is broken - and even when doing so, the case isn't too clear:

Error: not well-formed
Source file: http://feedhouse.mozillazine.org/rss10.xml
Line: 841, Column: 29
Source code:
 <title>Scott Kveton: XMPP & OpenID</title>
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Error: this._reader has no properties
Source file: file:///C:/Programme/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/FeedProcessor.js
Line: 1182
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Error: this._reader has no properties
Source file: file:///C:/Programme/Mozilla%20Firefox/components/FeedProcessor.js
Line: 1177

When the feed can't be displayed because of un-well-formedness, we should at least tell the user so and fail graciously (without unnecessarily cluttering the console).

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 350365 ***

Comment 2

[Tanner M. Young [:tmyoung]]

Verified Duplicate.