Open Bug 325622 Opened 19 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Unknown protocol dialog should show full URL

Categories

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: Navigation
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: jdawiseman, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

JPMorgan has an add-in for Excel, which (among other things) adds a menu to Excel that has a link, "Help". That menu item produces "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (c) isn't associated with any program". 

So after a bit of work IE becomes my default browser again, and what opens is "C:/Program Files/RDIXL/doc/index.html". It would have been much easier for the user if the Firefox dialog box had quoted the attempted URL in full, rather than just the (c) piece. 

This is related to (but an easier request than) bug 312680.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Summary: Link with unknown protocol produces insufficient dialog → Unknown protocol dialog should show full URL
Assignee: nobody → adamlock
Component: General → Embedding: Docshell
Product: Firefox → Core
QA Contact: general → adamlock
Version: unspecified → Trunk
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Assignee: adamlock → nobody
QA Contact: adamlock → docshell
Severity: normal → S3
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