5090 - Mozilla bookmarks should not be redirected through home.netscape.com

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 20862

(SeaMonkey :: Bookmarks & History, defect, P3)

Description

[Christine Hoffman]

Click on 'Bookmarks/Search/Alta Vista'. Search does not go to Alta Visa search
engine - it goes to Netscape search engine.

beppe: please check on Win 98
cpratt: please check on Win NT
petersen: please check on Mac
claudius: please check on Linux

Comment 1

[cpratt]

this is correct behavior (after a fashion). netscape used to have a business
relationship with altavista, but no longer does. all netscape bookmarks that
pointed to altavista now point to a netcenter page that shows you the search
engines with which aol/netscape currently have a business relationship.
downgrading priority to trivial.

Comment 2

[don]

Set milestone to M9.

Give me a break ...

Comment 3

[leger]

Updating QA Contact

Comment 4

[leger]

Moving all Apprunner bugs past and present to Other component temporarily whilst
don and I set correct component.  Apprunner component will be deleted/retired
shortly.

Comment 5

[don]

Is this still a problem?  If so, should fix by beta ...

Comment 6

[Joyce]

Since this is an open source project, and Mozilla is not Netscape, the default
Mozilla bookmarks should NOT be redirected though home.netscape.com - they
should point directly to the website URL.   For example the URL for Altavista
should be changed from:

http://home.netscape.com/bookmark/4_06/altavista.html

to

http://www.altavista.com

This applies to all the default Mozilla bookmarks.

Comment 7

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 20862 ***

Comment 8

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

verified duplicate of 20862.