537930 - Import of IE bookmarks have .URL extension

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Migration, defect)

Description

[Tecknomage]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Firefox v3.5.6, all my Bookmarks look like (example) "Adobe Flash Player.url"

How can I get rid of the ".url" in the Bookmarks list without having to edit each Bookmark :?:

In other words, set an option NOT to use the ".url" extension in Bookmark lists.

Example of an imported entry (properties):
- Name: A1c-Average Blood Glucose Conversion.url
- Location: http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/A1Ccalc.php

Firefox SHOULD be able to strip the .url from the Name field automatically.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Import of IE8 Bookmarks several times
2. Manually adding a bookmark from within Firefox
3.
Actual Results:  
1 - Export IE8 Favorites to Bookmarks.html
2 - Open Firefox in Safe Mode and reset Bookmarks to default
3 - Import Bookmarks.html


Expected Results:  
Using above example, the imported Bookmark....

Example of an imported entry SHOULD BE (properties):
- Name: A1c-Average Blood Glucose Conversion
- Location: http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/A1Ccalc.php

NO .url extension on Name

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Haven't been able to reproduce this using the URL you provided. Can you try starting in Safe Mode to see if the same thing happens - http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode?

Comment 2

[Tecknomage]

If you look at the "Steps to Reproduce" you should see that IS what I did.

UNLESS you meat Import in the Safe Mode.

Note, you are not doing what causes the problem. Import of IE8 Favorites that have been Exported (in IE8) to a HTML file.

Then, in Firefox (normal mode), Imported from the HTML file.

This does NOT occur if you add a bookmark within Firefox.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Note: Priority should only be set by developers please. resetting to --
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#priority

Comment 4

[Phoenix]

Still present on today trunk
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0

Comment 5

[Phoenix]

And doesn't appear if imported bookmarks from IE9

Comment 7

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Wonder if these are files like something.URL.url, otherwise with bug 829995 we would have not even imported them

Comment 8

[Tecknomage]

FIX: What I do now is edit (with my HTML Editor) my exported IEBookmarks.htm and find-replace ".url" with nothing, then import to Firefox. No "url" in bookmarks.

Comment 9

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

(In reply to Tecknomage from comment #8)
> FIX: What I do now is edit (with my HTML Editor) my exported IEBookmarks.htm
> and find-replace ".url" with nothing, then import to Firefox. No "url" in
> bookmarks.

do you mean the bug still happens with the current version?

Comment 10

[Phoenix]

Attachment: Exported from IE8 bookmarks

(In reply to Marco Bonardo [:mak] from comment #9)
> do you mean the bug still happens with the current version?
Of course, try to import attached bookmarks file from IE8

Comment 11

[Lars Gusowski [:lagu]]

Reproduced here with an other html file exportet from an IE8.
EoS of IE8 is April 2017.