81038 - Open Location 'new page in composer' from browser does not work

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 84191

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

If I bring up the Open Location dialog in browser, and try to open a local file 
in a new composer window,
i)  On mac, nothing happens
ii) On Windows, we activate Windows Explorer (?)

Comment 1

[Pauli Borodulin]

Hmm, using 0.9 build 2001050515 on W98SE, nothing happened.

Comment 2

[Kathleen :Brade]

duplicate of bug #71234?

Comment 3

[Blake Ross]

No.  This is no longer my bug, I think it's an xpcdom regression.  I'll reassign 
as appropriate when I get more info.

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

hrm, i've been seeing this for a long time, and thought it would be a dup of bug
71234...

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This isn't bug 71234; it fails even if you enter a full URL.

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

blake: can you give some hints about what is failing?

Comment 7

[doctor__j]

This bug is a more general bug compared to bug 71426.

Comment 8

[Charles Manske]

There's already a bug on this -- it's the security code in "editPage" in
utilityOverlay.js.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84191 ***

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

mass verification of duplicate bugs: to find all bugspam pertaining to this, set
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if you think this particular bug is *not* a duplicate, please provide a
compelling reason, as well as check a recent *trunk* build (on the appropriate
platform[s]), before reopening.