384108 - Clicking a link in RSSBandit opens FF with the wrong URL

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Shockley]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070610 Minefield/3.0a6pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9a6pre) Gecko/20070610 Minefield/3.0a6pre

I use a feed reader called RSS Bandit on Windows (http://www.rssbandit.org/).  When viewing Microsoft Knowledgebase RSS feeds, when I click on a link in the feed then Firefox (the default browser) has an incorrect query.  It's hard to explain, so I'll attach a test case.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open test case in Minefield
2. Click on the link
3. Note the incorrect query part
Actual Results:  
Query part is incorrect, even though it's correct in the source of the test case.

Minefield goes to http://support.microsoft.com/kb#3694530316919147932, but the actual link is http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938134&sd=rss&spid=3198


Expected Results:  
Parse link correctly?

This problem does not occur in FF 2.0.0.4; I believe it started happening around a month ago, but I'm not positive.

Comment 1

[Steve Shockley]

Attachment: Test case to show incorrect URL behavior

Open this test case in FF, then click on the link.

Comment 2

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

It goes to http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;938134&sd=rss&spid=3198

Comment 3

[Steve Shockley]

Interesting.  When I open it from the link to the test case, it works correctly.  If I save the test case to my machine, it works incorrectly (it goes to http://support.microsoft.com/kb#8654318933861322894 instead).  Please try "save link as", then rename the file to .html and open it and try to reproduce.  Thanks.

Comment 4

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

It makes no difference here. Did you also test this with a new profile with default settings?

Comment 5

[Steve Shockley]

Hm, I copied my profile to another machine and could not duplicate it, but creating a new profile on this machine seems to solve the problem.  I'll reopen the bug if I can repro it on multiple profiles/machines.  Thanks for your time.