Closed Bug 444470 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Typing about:about in the address bar redirects to an ugly URL

Categories

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Address Bar
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 349451

People

(Reporter: john.karahalis, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061017 Firefox/3.0

Typing about:foo, about:bar, or even about:hasselhoff returns a nice, clean alert - "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded". However, typing about:about into the address bar gives no alert, but instead redirects the user to a file which produces the "Page Load Error".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Type about:about in the location bar
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
You are redirected to a file which cannot load.

Expected Results:  
You receive the alert "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded".
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
V.Duplicate
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Version: unspecified → Trunk
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