901586 - can't drag file:// links to the about:newtab page

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Tom Seddon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

1. Make a bookmark to a local file - path in my case is file:///C:/tom/emacs/elisp_html/index.html

2. Follow instructions at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-tab-page-show-hide-and-customize-top-sites to add this bookmark to the newtab page by dragging and dropping it from the Show All Bookmarks window to one of the boxes on the newtab page.


Actual results:

When the link is dragged onto one of the boxes in the newtab page, the link is opened in the window and the newtab page is unmodified.


Expected results:

The link should be assigned to the box it was dropped on to, as happens when you drag an http:// link.

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

Regressiom window
Good:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ae22909cef5a
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 ID:20120717152955
Bad:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d56993c345f4
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0 ID:20120718033655
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=ae22909cef5a&tochange=d56993c345f4

Regressed by:
c119555cd89a	Tim Taubert — Bug 765628 - Bookmarklets on the new tab page are able to run privileged javascript; r=gavin

Comment 2

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

I am also able to reproduce this on MacOSX.

Comment 3

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

Unintended side-effect of the checkLoadURI call added to block javascript:/data: links, I guess. Not sure what to do about it, seems like kind of a pain to fix without regressing bug 765628.

Comment 4

[Tim Taubert [:ttaubert] (inactive)]

Yeah... seems like the best we can do here is to wait until bug 776477 is fixed and then remove the link checker.

Comment 5

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

Mass-move to Firefox::New Tab Page.

Filter on new-tab-page-component.

Comment 7

[Jessilyn Davis]

Hello!

This bug has been closed due to inactivity and/or the potential for this bug to no longer be an issue with the new Discovery Stream-powered New Tab experience.

Please help us triage by reopening if this issue still persists and should be addressed.

Thanks!