378379 - Bookmark pointing to file://///test/test.html freezes Firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 98682

Description

[Pavel Penaz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070415 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.8.1.4pre) Gecko/20070415 Firefox/2.0.0.3

Clicking a bookmark pointing to file://///test/test.html freezes Firefox 2.0.0.3.
Minefield freezes only for a few seconds. It seems the five consecutive slashes are the culprit, when I leave only two slashes, the problem disappears.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bookmark pointing to file://///test/test.html
2. Click on the bookmark
Actual Results:  
The browser becomes unresponsive.

Expected Results:  
The browser should show "URL does not exist" error message.

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

It's because you're trying to access a non-available Windows UNC share.