406391 - Entering a bogus feed location in the properties for a livemark fails poorly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 408128

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect)

Description

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

STR:

1. Load http://www.mozilla.org/news.rdf and add it as a livemark
2. Right click the livemark folder, Properties
3. In Feed Location, change the http:// to quux:// (or ftp:// if you're boring and staid)
4. Click Save Changes, note that the dialog doesn't close
5. Change back to http://, click Save Changes again, the dialog closes
6. Note that your livemark isn't working right anymore
7. Reopen properties, note that even though it was http:// when you closed it, it's now back to quux://

If you've done all that in a debug build, you'll also note that every 15 seconds you're getting another exception from nsIIOService.newChannel, because although a failure that calls onStopRequest will set the 10 minute ERROR_EXPIRATION, a failure in the try{} block in _updateLivemarkChildren that sets up the loadgroup doesn't. I'm not sure if that's right or not, since I'm not sure how to wind up there without doing something foolish like changing your feed to a non-http URI.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Oops.

Comment 2

[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