473759 - Dragging a folder from the Library to browser content or location bar results in strange effects

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P5)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090114 Shiretoko/3.1b3pre Ubiquity/0.1.4 ID:20090114020333

Currently you will get an alert when trying to drag a folder from within the Library to the browser content or location bar:

"Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
(mozillahttp) isn't associated with any program."

STR given by Marco:
- create a folder with a name NOT containing white spaces (eg "mozilla")
- add at least one bookmark inside the folder
- drag the folder in the content space
-> "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
(FOLDERNAMEhttp) isn't associated with any program."

Comment 1

[Stephen Morley]

Also on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.1) Gecko/20090624 Firefox/3.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

When the folder is dragged (either from the Library or the Bookmarks Toolbar) to the address bar, the name of the folder is concatenated with the address of all of the links contained within it. If the folder name does not contain a space, Firefox attempts to navigate to that address, leading to the error described above.

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

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

When dragging to the location bar comment 1 still applies.

When dragging to the main content area, we open new tabs for the folder name, and for the individual bookmarks.