490024 - When using a wysiwyg online text editor, graphics or links dropped into editor create a relative link even when full web address is given.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[stankanner]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3

I am a sysad for compuhigh.com an online highschool.
We use a wysiwyg text editor for communications between students and teachers.
Teachers will sometimes drag linked text to another lesson or a graphic into the text box.
Here is an example.  When we link to a lesson a href "http://compuhigh.net/directory" from a text box created in a web page located in compuhigh.net/directory Firefox changes takes out the compuhigh.net/directory and replaces it with a relative link.
This creates a problem.  When the final post is read by the student, it is in a different directory, and the relative link does not work.  Web designers know when they can use relative links and when they can't.  Having Firefox interpret what the designer wants limits its flexibility.  Since the form in question is in a password protected site, I can't give you access to see it.  The problem is a new one for Firefox, and is not present in Explorer.

Stan Kanner

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 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.