Re: Hotlist truncation/corruption

On 22 Nov 2012 Michael Drake <tlsa@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:

> In article <60245ff252.harriet@blueyonder.co.uk>,
> Harriet Bazley <lists@orange.wingsandbeaks.org.uk> wrote:

>> Recently I've been suffering increasingly frequent corruption of my
>> NetSurf hotlist

> The hotlist gets truncated when it fails to save one of the entries.

> Since hotlist load/save was ported from libxml to libdom it has failed to
> handle HTML entities. So the hotlist will get truncated before the first
> entry to contain an "unusual" character.

> The beep is because NetSurf opens a warning dialogue box to report the
> problem, although since it is quitting, you won't get a chance to see it
> before NetSurf quits.


> In article <8f7cb4f252.pnyoung@pnyoung.ormail.co.uk>,
> Peter Young <pnyoung@ormail.co.uk> wrote:

>> What I do is to open the global history from the icon bar icon, do menu
>> over the history > History > Export, and drag the file to the icon bar
>> icon.

> That's the same problem. The warning mentions the hotlist because global
> history and hotlist share the same code for saving.

Thanks for the explanation. I imagine it's being worked on, so I will
be patient.

With best wishes,

Peter.

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