163017 - would like to browse links when composing emails

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Greg Cook]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721
BuildID:    2002072104

In Netscape(v4.7) Messenger it's possible to browse the links you include in
your email composition. This was achieved by right clicking on the link in the
email being composed, and selecting "Browse to: <link>".

This feature is nice as it enabled me to verify my links before sending an email.

Could this feature be added to Mozilla Mail?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose mail
2. Create a link in the mail text
3. Right click on the link

Actual Results:  There is no menu option to browse to the link

Expected Results:  It would have been nice if Mozilla has a "Browse to" menu
option for links in compose mode.

Comment 1

[Olav Vitters]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75173 ***

Comment 2

[Malcolm Rowe]

I don't think this is a duplicate.  Bug 75173 is about adding 'Browse to' to 
Composer, while this bug is about adding it to message composition in 
MailNews.  I know they share a lot of code, but the context menus are already 
different, so fixing 75173 wouldn't fix this.

Comment 3

[Olav Vitters]

You are right. Didn't read this one correctly (compose vs composer)

Comment 4

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

once bug 75173 fixed, we might get this feature for free in message compose

Comment 5

[Malcolm Rowe]

Confirming and adding keywords.

Comment 6

[Jim Booth]

*** Bug 209651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***