494867 - Firefox can not import correctly Internet Explorer Bookmarks

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 476191

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[jamireste]

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

Internet Explorer sometimes creates strange looking bookmark file. When such a bookmark is present, Firefox's import function fails.

I wrote a malformed Internet Explorer bookmark file into "Additional Information" field.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create Malformed.URL file (cf Addition Information)
2. Put it into Internet Explorer bookmarks folder
3. Launch Firefox and import Internet Explorer bookmarks into Firefox.

Actual Results:  
Internet explorer bookmarks before Malformed.URL are imported but the remaining bookmarks (ie : bookmarks whose name begin with a N, O, P and so on) are not imported.

Expected Results:  
All internet explorer bookmarks should have been imported into Firefox.

Malformed.URL content (2 lines long) :

[InternetShortcut]
Modified=C067ABEDDD22C90188

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

is that shortcut file a common file that internet explorer creates? do you know when it is created by chance?

Comment 2

[jamireste]

This shortcut file was created when a bookmarked an internet site. I didn't notice it was malformed until I noticed this bug. (I renamed the .URL file for this report)

It was created on sept-30-2008 according to it's timestamp in the NTFS filesystem.