657093 - bad character not handled in gconf url handler lookup

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 541130

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[mikedoo3]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10

Example:

Email text contains
abc+:a

When you click the email, thunderbird tries to look up abc+ url handler in gnome and you get an error dialog

An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for Gecko. Some of your configuration settings may not work properly.
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/abc+/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names
Bad key or directory name: "/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/abc+/command": `+' is an invalid character in key/directory names



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Send email with text abc+:a
2. Open that email
3. 

Actual Results:  
Get the error popup described

Expected Results:  
It should check for bad characters before checking in the gnome registry to avoid this problem.

Comment 1

[mikedoo3]

I found out this is a duplicate of 541130