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  1. Bug #1082446
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Comment 1 for bug 1082446

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In , Ck+bugzilla (ck+bugzilla) wrote :

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Firefox/17.0
Build ID: 20121121075611

Steps to reproduce:

Firefox 17 (and 18) stops loading rules from permissions.sqlite and does not save new rules when it encounters rules from Firefox 16 that it no longer likes.

Please see for more details http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2621009

Actual results:

One clear example is that scheme:file will cause all rules to stop processing and no new rules can be added as long as it exists in permissions.sqlite

I believe there is also a problem with single letter domains and domains that start with a dot. There may be other rejected rule formats.

Expected results:

All Firefox 16 rules should be accepted in Firefox 17 or bad rules skipped while processing continues and an error message is generated until rule is fixed or removed.

A better permissions editor, or at least a way to examine all rules like exexception https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/exexceptions/ would also be nice.