Closed Bug 296635 Opened 19 years ago Closed 16 years ago

A running Thunderbird instance should handle requests for a mailto link

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(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
major

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: superbiskit, Unassigned)

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Thunderbird Nightly: linux gtk, version 1.0+ (20050528)

Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531
Firefox/1.0+ AKA DeerPark Alpha 1
Also (FWIW) Kernel 2.4.29-fp, GNOME 2.8

If Thunderbird is already running, clicking on a mailto: link in the browser
should bring up the mail-editor, instead I get the profile manager because my
profile is locked by the running ap.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Thunderbird, Start Firefox
2. In Firefox, find a mailto:<whatever> link, Click on it
3.

Actual Results:  
Profile Manager requests a profile under which to run Thunderbird (bacause my
actual default profile is locked by the running instance)

Expected Results:  
The running instance should receive a message requesting the mailto: handler and
should launch the editor.
this works on my windows build, fwiw. I thought someone fixed this recently, but
I don't know if the fix was windows only or not.
Yeah, David, AFAIK it has always worked on Windows.  At least, I never saw this.
In Windows history it is only recently that the OS could keep multiple instances
from stepping on each other so there was a manditory protocol involved to handle
it.  Linux has no objection to running multiple instances of anything.
The only thing that keeps this from working is the perceived need to lock up the
entire profile directory.  Of course, if the mail-composer were a separate
executable it would be even smoother.
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This is adapted from the Firefox start script. (I didn't try to understand the
Thunderbird start script. The proposed change just works for me.)
*** Bug 260090 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I was having the same problem (thunderbid 1.0.6), but the solution is not exactly the same as in the patch posted by Peter. That's because (I suppose) on his system /usr/bin/thunderbird is just a symlink, while on my system it's the script itself. my patch is attached, combinig them should solve the problem in both cases.
QA Contact: general
Are the patches still up-to-date?
Assignee: mscott → nobody
(In reply to comment #7)
> Are the patches still up-to-date?

Steve, are you able to check this?  

Note: patch author was not cc: for Gary's comment, and no response from Simon when I pinged him in May
This doesn't seem to be an issue in TB 2.0.0.17 on Ubuntu 8.04.1.  If I have Firefox and Thunderbird both running, and click a mailto: link, it opens up a compose window without asking for a profile.

Resolve as WFM?
(In reply to comment #9)
> This doesn't seem to be an issue in TB 2.0.0.17 on Ubuntu 8.04.1.  If I have
> Firefox and Thunderbird both running, and click a mailto: link, it opens up a
> compose window without asking for a profile.
> 
> Resolve as WFM?

Sure, thanks for testing, Steve.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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