History URLs are stored as UTF-8 but lastPageVisited is declared as a string so it cannot return UTF-8 data. I suggest it is changed to AUTF8String instead. Steps to reproduce problem: 1. Configure one of your navigator startup prefs to last page visited 2. Visit the URL 3. Open navigator in such a way as to trigger the pref Expected results: URL opens Actual results: Mozilla tries to load http://öko.de/

I vote for nsIURI

OK, so bug 236138 fixed this for the case of retrieving the browser's idea of the startup page from the last page visited, so all I need to do now is to fix access to lastPageVisited from script.

OK, let's try again in UTF-8 ... Steps to reproduce problem: 1. Configure Mozilla to load the last page visited in a new window 2. Open http://öko.de/ 3. Open a new browser window Actual results: Mozilla tries to load http://öko.de/ Note that the new tab case has slightly different code - it actually duplicates the current tab, rather than loading the last page visited. And bsmedberg fixed the navigator startup case in bug 236138.

Comment on attachment 142825 [details] [diff] [review] Proposed patch in nsBrowserInstance, use nsCAutoString, not nsCString other than that, sr=alecf

Fix checked in.