491400 - Fennec tries to download (as an external file) atom feeds while displaying RSS feeds fine

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 477714

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Al Billings [:abillings - ex-MoCo]]

If a Fennec user clicks on a link to an Atom feed for a site, the user will receive a download prompt as the browser attempts to download the file. In contrast, RSS feeds are displayed inline as xml (which has other bugs open on it).

We should display the contents of an Atom feed.

This was found with the build that I made today on OS X.

You can test this on any blogspot site, such as http://zenmirror.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default.

Comment 1

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

I'm moving this to enhancement bug and flagging this as approval for wanted-fennec1.0

Btw, this is happening on build:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv6l; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20090827
Fennec/1.0b4pre

Comment 2

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Now that Fennec 1.0 is feature complete, this needs to be fixed so users don't get this page anymore and, instead, get something a little bit more understandable.

Comment 3

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Is displaying the raw Atom feed really any better?

Comment 4

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

You're right Mark, displaying the raw Atom feed isn't any better, but we definitely need a better solution to this bug :(.

Comment 5

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

This is going to be fixed in bug 477714

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

This bug is a dup of bug 477714. It can't be a blocker

Comment 7

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

out of curiosity, is there an rss feed reading app on the device your testing? If there is we should be kicking out to that rather than trying to download the xml locally.  If not, that's a separate bug from bug 477714