Closed Bug 1792713 Opened 2 years ago Closed 2 years ago

The Firefox View url "about:firefoxview" is case sensitive

Categories

(Firefox :: Firefox View, defect, P3)

Desktop
All
defect

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RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Status
firefox105 --- affected
firefox106 --- affected
firefox107 --- affected

People

(Reporter: rdoghi, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Whiteboard: [fidefe-2022-mr1-firefox-view])

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Found in

  • 106.0b5 (2022-09-28)

Affected versions

  • Firefox Nightly 107.0a1
  • Beta 106.0b5

Affected platforms

  • all

Steps to reproduce

  1. Set any other color from the Change Colorway menu.
  2. Reach about:firefoxview in a new tab.
  3. Reach about:FirefoxView in a second tab.

Expected result

  • The about:firefoxview url should not be case sensitive and it should redirect to the same page.
  • The about:FirefoxView url should be replaced with the default "Search with google" text and the page background color should be the one set in the Colorway menu.

Actual result

  • The about:firefoxview url text is replaced with Search with google and the Background color remains the one set in the Colorway menu.
  • The about:FirefoxView url text remains inside the urlbar and the page background color is white as if the user was redirected to a different page.
Has STR: --- → yes
Priority: -- → P3

I don't think we care enough to fix that - URLs are case sensitive, and you can see this if you open e.g. about:Neterror? or about:Newtab (which respectively don't work at all and don't get the background colour either), without using the autocomplete (which auto-lowercases it for you). We don't support users inputting mis-cased about: URLs.

Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 2 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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