6626 - Mail compose: click on link and new page displays w/in compose window

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect, P3)

Description

[lchiang]

Mail compose: click on link and new page displays w/in compose window; no way to
go back to composing the rest of the message

Reproduced on all platforms using 1999-05-17 builds

1)  Tasks | Messenger
2)  New Message
3)  HTML compose window appears with the pre-inserted text of "This message was
sent by Messenger 5.0" where "Messenger 5.0" is a link going to the mozilla.org
mail/news page.
4)  Within this mail compose window, click on the link.  You are able to.
5)  The mozilla.org mail/news page appears.  There is no way to go back to
finish your composition of the message.

Note:  Should links be active (clickable) from within the compose window?

cc: rhp.  I don't know if this belongs to you or to ducarroz.

Comment 1

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

Does Ender have some kind of control on how URLs are fire within a ender page? If
yes, could you fire the URL is a new window?

Comment 2

[Akkana Peck]

Disabling links is on Joe's schedule for M8.

Comment 3

[Joe Francis]

accepting bug

Comment 4

[Joe Francis]

fixed

Comment 5

[Phil Peterson]

*** Bug 8035 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[laurel]

Link is indeed disabled using jul12 builds on Mac OS 8.51, NT4.0 and Linux
rh5.2.

However, once you click in the link, you can't get typing focus back in the body
unless you use the keyboard instead of the mouse.  I guess I'll close this bug
(since the link is disabled) and check for/log another one as a separate issue.