I am using Warpzilla 0.9.6

I have a bookmark set for a local file, a mirror of a file on my 
website (this bookmark was in the Bookmarks file that the Mozilla 
installation copied from the prior Netscape 4.6.1 directory). The 
location is shown in the Bookmarks file as: 

file:///d:\clan\index.html

Netscape accepts this designation; when it views this file, it changes
the backslashes to forward slashes in the location window. Not so 
Mozilla, which puts up an "Alert" message reading:

"The file /d%3A%5Cclan%5Cindex.html cannot be found. Please check the 
location and try again."

The location window reads: file:///d%3A%5Cclan%5Cindex.html

The first conclusion was that Mozilla is incapable of viewing a local 
HTML file, a bug. But I found that, if I edit the bookmark manually to
change the backslashes to forward slashes, Mozilla no longer chokes, 
and views the local file properly.

The bug, then, is that the standard for slashes is different in 
Mozilla and Netscape, and that the Mozilla installation program 
doesn't know enough to accomodate the difference when it copies 
Netscape Bookmark files.

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Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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