235488 - Thunderbird can't open http URLs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

We need to modify our helper app code to handle default http stuff.

Patch attached.

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Fix

Query the default browser and launch it if we don't have http/https/ftp
handlers.

Ugly but it works.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Better patch

I search the PATH for the EXE first to avoid the popup of the commmand
processor.

This is a non whitespace diff to make things clearer

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Fix checked in.