538884 - Displaying a blog RSS feed from Blogger opens a Firefox window pointing to Friend Connect (friendconnect.gmodules.com)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 524281

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[thomas.oliveira]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091204 Thunderbird/3.0

This bug may be closelly related to Bug 524281.
When reading a RSS feed from a Blogger's blog, Firefox opens an URL to friendconnect.gmodules.com.
Exemples:

When reading post from
http://lejournalin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss,

Firefox loads the URL 

http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o.friendconnect.gmodules.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ffriendconnect%2Fgadgets%2Fmembers.xml&container=peoplesense&parent=http%3A%2F%2Flejournalin.blogspot.com%2F&mid=0&view=profile&libs=google.blog&v=0.505.5&lang=fr&communityId=03460362864146684647&caller=http%3A%2F%2Flejournalin.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fe-chiove.html#st=e%3DAOG8GaAhZL%252BqiWQj2bZSKRcRB%252Fupa%252FGPAFxzMRbzsx4kwVjvh%252BU8B3L16vLlXGgdHKyWFUWaPjxaABENcXu4hrMhe8E9YqXzTc9im587kwdfOCuN9jum4uDf1DJm8Myjj9XAD7c1cevB2DB8uW940wKXD3zrQyjxoeyBHXvlwibB92C2yN6wsd26BxihLB4eSklcsv9zb2Rw%252FR4dXdfy4xEp6sOpNPctjQzV2pgnb10Gzo70NC4%252F0ElkaEVV%252FGhfInrTIeqn6ADd%26c%3Dpeoplesense&rpctoken=1787654819&

When trying to reproduce bug 524281, an URL similar to the above is loaded, not a error page as reported at bug 524281.

Also reported by Vargas on
http://getsatisfaction.com/mozilla_messaging/topics/rss_opening_external_links_in_browser_automatically

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Add the RSS feed http://lejournalin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss <-- NOT MY BLOG, NOT POSTED FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES)
2. Click on a post.
Actual Results:  
Firefox pops up displaying the following url in a new tab:
http://r1rk9np7bpcsfoeekl0khkd2juj27q3o.friendconnect.gmodules.com/gadgets/ifr?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Ffriendconnect%2Fgadgets%2Fmembers.xml&container=peoplesense&parent=http%3A%2F%2Flejournalin.blogspot.com%2F&mid=0&view=profile&libs=google.blog&v=0.505.5&lang=fr&communityId=03460362864146684647&caller=http%3A%2F%2Flejournalin.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F01%2Fe-chiove.html#st=e%3DAOG8GaAhZL%252BqiWQj2bZSKRcRB%252Fupa%252FGPAFxzMRbzsx4kwVjvh%252BU8B3L16vLlXGgdHKyWFUWaPjxaABENcXu4hrMhe8E9YqXzTc9im587kwdfOCuN9jum4uDf1DJm8Myjj9XAD7c1cevB2DB8uW940wKXD3zrQyjxoeyBHXvlwibB92C2yN6wsd26BxihLB4eSklcsv9zb2Rw%252FR4dXdfy4xEp6sOpNPctjQzV2pgnb10Gzo70NC4%252F0ElkaEVV%252FGhfInrTIeqn6ADd%26c%3Dpeoplesense&rpctoken=1787654819&

Expected Results:  
No browser popping up.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Thomas do you experience the same issue if you run Thunderbird in -safe-mode (http://kb.mozillazine.org/Safe_mode) ?

Comment 2

[thomas.oliveira]

Dear Ludovic, the same issue occurs in Thunderbird -safe-mode.

Comment 3

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

These are the same issues.