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Bug 327462

Summary: [Browser] Open with > web browser for url with spaces does not work with Firefox
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Baptiste Mesta <baptiste.mesta>
Component: User AssistanceAssignee: platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: cgold, remy.suen
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Baptiste Mesta CLA 2010-10-11 11:40:09 EDT
Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

This is the same bug has Bug 238961
When a firefox is manually set in browser preferences page, if the url to a file contains spaces, multiple page are opened.
this issue has been fixed for windows but not for other platform (see the patch)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter manually firefox as the default browser in the browser preference page
2.open an html file with the file path of the file containing spaces
3.multiple tabs are opened in firefox
Comment 1 Baptiste Mesta CLA 2010-10-11 11:40:42 EDT
Created attachment 180605 [details]
pacth
Comment 2 Chris Goldthorpe CLA 2011-04-25 17:56:44 EDT
This is working in version I20110424-2000. This most likely started working when Bug 320934 was fixed.