667909 - Incorrect validation error with data URL

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Developer Pages, defect)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

I'm adding a search engine like this:

try {
  DefaultTabServices.search.addEngineWithDetails(label, "data:image/x-icon;base64," +
     "iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAYAAAAf8/9hAAAACXBIWXMAAAsTAAALEwEAmpwYAAA

And I got the:

javascript:/data: URIs may be incompatible with Firefox 6

Not sure how you can do it, but there are definitely cases where data URLs are OK. Shouldn't just throw out that error.

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

That's just a soft warning and it was expected to be a false positive in the majority of cases. See bug 659681 for more info.

WONTFIX.