http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13361
Summary: firefox 3 can't handle local paths in location window [dogfood] Product: Wine Version: CVS/GIT Platform: Other OS/Version: other Status: NEW Keywords: download, Installer Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: -unknown AssignedTo: wine-bugs@winehq.org ReportedBy: dank@kegel.com
Today I tried to install Acrobat Reader, and for some reason it decided to use the download manager rather than a direct download. The download was interrupted (that's another story), and the download manager left a handy link on the desktop to resume the download. The launcher contained:
env WINEPREFIX="/home/dank/.wine-firefox" wine "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" C:\windows\temp\nosget_start_manager.html
That's not going to fly for several reasons: 1) the backslashes aren't quoted or escaped (but that's a different bug) 2) Firefox 3 on Wine doesn't seem to recognize local paths as valid URLs; typing c:\foo.txt into the location window yields errors like Firefox can't find the file at /c:/foo.txt.
Firefox 2 doesn't seem to have this trouble. (I have not verified that Firefox 3 can handle c:\foo.txt on Windows, but I'll eat a box of doughnuts if it can't.)