491803 - Location bar is populated with corrupt URL.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Address Bar, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042316 Firefox/3.0.10

A corrupted URL that is a concatenation of an invalid string and a valid web address populates the location bar when:

A bookmark is selected from the Bookmarks menu bar drop down menu. 
A hyperlink is selected from a document displayed in the browser

The content of the address bar is:

jar:file:///C:/Program%20Files/Mozilla%20Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.properties<web address>

where web address is a valid web address of the selected bookmark, for example www.google.co.th.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.From the FireFox manu bar, select Bookmarks
2.From the Bookmarks drop down menu, select a bookmark, for example 'Google Ireland'
3.
Actual Results:  
The following web page is displayed:

File Not Found
  
Firefox can't find the file at jar:file:///C:/Program Files/Mozilla Firefox/chrome/en-US.jar!/locale/browser-region/region.propertieswww.google.ie.

Expected Results:  
Display the page 'Google Ireland'

The bug also occurs when clicking on a hyperlink in a web page currently displayed in the browser.

Comment 1

[John P Baker]

This error message is often associated with use - now or in the past - of an ask.com toolbar although I don't recall these symptoms before; However it may still be worth looking at the workaround for it to see if any preferences are set incorrectly

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions#Ask.com_Toolbar

Comment 2

[David Dahl :ddahl]

Please restart Firefox in safe mode and try to reproduce the bug.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

and there is bug 479291

Comment 4

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

resolving as WFM based on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479291#c7