RSS: Bookmarks toolbar malforms links.

[Troy James Sobotka]

Binary package hint: firefox

In response to the request made in https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181103

Summary: RSS feeds when added to the bookmarks toolbar appear malformed. The body of the text is correct, but when selecting the link, the link will point to a malformed URI. This often is featured with 'tag' clauses, repeating of the source URI, etc.

Platform: Ubuntu 7.10 amd64

Frequency: Often (3/5 trials for manifestations)

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181103 for link samples from Planet Ubuntu.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 8 15:16:47 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 2.0.0.11+2nobinonly-0ubuntu0.7.10
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux 64bit 2.6.22-13-generic #1 SMP Thu Oct 4 17:52:26 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:20:14PM -0000, Troy James Sobotka wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: firefox
>
> In response to the request made in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181103
>
> Summary: RSS feeds when added to the bookmarks toolbar appear
> malformed. The body of the text is correct, but when selecting the
> link, the link will point to a malformed URI. This often is featured
> with 'tag' clauses, repeating of the source URI, etc.

 status incomplete

OK, first, please verify that this is not caused by an
extension. start firefox in safe-mode from the command line:

 firefox -safe-mode

Thanks,

 - Alexander

[wolfger (wolfger)]

Over 4 months without a response. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!