374364 - "Invalid chrome URI: /" while typing chrome URIs in the location bar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.9a3pre) Gecko/20070315 Firefox/3.0a3pre ID:2007031719

STR:
1. In a trunk build with places-based history, open the Error Console
2. Type chrome in the location bar
3. Type : and note the "Invalid chrome URI: /" error in the console
4. Type //foo/b and note additional errors for every keystroke
5. Type a and note that the spew has finally stopped (because nsChromeRegistry finally stops caring when the path length is no longer < 3)

Not sure exactly where to place the blame among autocomplete and history, since I can't figure out where old-style history avoided it, so I'm blaming Places because it started when places-history was enabled, and doesn't happen in a current -disable-places build.

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Bug 451915 - move Firefox/Places bugs to Firefox/Bookmarks and History. Remove all bugspam from this move by filtering for the string "places-to-b-and-h".

In Thunderbird 3.0b, you do that as follows:
Tools | Message Filters
Make sure the correct account is selected. Click "New"
Conditions: Body   contains   places-to-b-and-h
Change the action to "Delete Message".
Select "Manually Run" from the dropdown at the top.
Click OK.

Select the filter in the list, make sure "Inbox" is selected at the bottom, and click "Run Now". This should delete all the bugspam. You can then delete the filter.

Gerv