233102 - Can't open "file://///" links in email into new/existing browser window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Michael Baffoni]

If I am sent a link in an email "file://///server/share" (this is for windows
"\\server\share" access), the link appears selectable/linkable, but clicking on
it does nothing.  If I then right-click the link and paste it into a new window,
it opens the folder just fine.  For some reason the email front end won't open
the link into a browser window like other links.

Comment 1

[Michael Baffoni]

Forgot to add:  Seeing in Mozilla 1.6 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0;
en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113).  Also in Netscape 7.1.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

For good security reasons, in fact....

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84128 ***

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

verified.