649258 - Cannot open bookmarked URL from command line using it's short name.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: Bookmarks & History, enhancement)

Description

[silvery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I added a bookmark short name "j" for "javascript:%s".
When I'm trying to start firefox with the following prompt:
start /max C:\PROGRA~2\MOZILL~1.0be\FIREFOX.EXE "j alert('Goodbye world!');"
it returns an error:
Firefox не может найти файл (Russian: cannot find the file) /C:/Users/silvery/j alert('Goodbye world!');.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make a bookmark of a page.
2. Give it a short name.
3. Start Firefox from command prompt with start /max path_to_firefox\FIREFOX.EXE "defined_short_name"
Actual Results:  
Firefox returns an error:
Firefox не может найти файл (Russian: cannot find the file) /C:/Users/silvery/j alert('Goodbye world!');.

Expected Results:  
The bookmark should be opened. In my case it must be an javascript:alert window, which informs user that his profile has been copied.

Firefox 4.0
Windows 7 x64

Comment 1

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

we don't plan to implement shortcuts (keywords) from the command line, it would involve complex code that we surely don't want to run at startup for performance reasons, moreover it's a rarely used feature that benefits just a few users, and its scope has never been to provide shortcuts, rather search keywords ("Add a keyword for this search" feature).
So, sorry but I don't think we are going to do this.