413624 - URL čšž

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Denis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9

Why firefox does not display čžš signs in url? I am from Slovenia, the biggest firefox fans and we use this signs čžš but they don't work in firefox browser :( will it be done in the next update?

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.just make this signs avalible

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

That's for 2 reasons :

- Firefox 3.0 will be much better when these characters in the URL itself (right of the domainname). For instance, <http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seznam_dr%C5%BEav_s_kraticami> will be shown correct in Firefox 3, but not in Firefox 2. 

- for the domainname, there's also better news. Firefox 3 will display these characters too, without showing "puny-code", like www.xn--ii-ema94a.com . For example <http://www.müller.de/> shows correctly in Firefox 3, but not in Firefox 2. But there's a security problem, explained in <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.IDN.whitelist.*>. Firefox 3 contains a whitelist for top-level-domains that are safe to use, but .com is not among them !

Note that .si (Slovenia) are *not* yet in the list either.

Comment 2

[Denis]

I can't tell how happy I am that you answered me. Very kind of you, it means a lot.

I understand everything but if no .com domains will be on a whitelist that can't help us much becouse our .si policy does not allow to register this IDN domains. Do you think they will update their policy or would't it be better that when visiting a domain like www.xn--ii-ema94a.com firefox would ask you if you trust that domain and if clicked yes then it would be displayed correctly?

Regards, Denis Jakin

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This bug was originally reported on Firefox 2.x or older, which is no longer supported and will not be receiving any more updates. I strongly suggest that you update to Firefox 3.6.6 or later, update your plugins (flash, adobe, etc.), and retest in a new profile. If you still see the issue with the updated Firefox, please post here. Otherwise, please close as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
http://www.mozilla.com
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+mode

Comment 4

[Jo Hermans]

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/tld-idn-policy-list.html

.com is still not accepted as a "save" top-level domain, and neither is .si . Neither have any safeguards against malicious URL's at this moment.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.8 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.