User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 A URL pointing to the local file system sometimes contains a vertical bar. Example: file:///c|/html/index.html. The browser displays such pages correctly but trying to set it as home page leads to absurd results. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter a URL in the address bar that contains a vertical bar. It may look like file:///c|/html/index.html. Or import Netscape bookmarks referencing HTML files on your local harddisk. 2. Open such a page. The page displays correctly. 3. Try to set the page as the browser's home page (Tools / Options / Home Page / Locations / Use Current Pages). 4. Click the Home button. Actual Results: Firefox opens two tabs instead of one, both empty or showing unexpected content. The built-in search function may even open completely unexpected Internet pages (http://www.htmlgoodies.com in the above example). Expected Results: Open one tab with the specified local page. The vertical bar in the URL is used ambiguously in Firefox. Additional suggestion (not related with the reported bug): It would be nice if there were two buttons: 'Use Current Page' and 'Use Current Pages'.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221445 ***

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs, filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Bug 221445 was marked as fixed even though this part wasn't fixed, so I'm reopening this bug.

Yes, I can not set this url as my home page. http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=en|zh-CN it always open two tab, and complain zh-CN cannot be found. Need use better way to support multiple pages for home page. e.g. should use \r\n as separator -- since no one can type \r\n in url. I just tested this bug on 3.6.3

Still an issue with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110827 Firefox/9.0a1 ID:20110827030801