1085191 - FTP email links not opening in default browser.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Mahlon]

I have encountered a small problem in Thunderbird (v:31.2.0).  OS: Fedora20 (x86_64)
When clicking a link in a received email, the page should be opened in the default browser.
This is true for HTTP and HTTPS links; however, it is not true for FTP directory links.
For example, the ncurses mailing list messages from Thomas Dickey contain a signature with both the HTTP and FTP links:
http://invisible-island.net/
ftp://invisible-island.net/

Clicking the HTTP link correctly opens the page in the default browser (in this case, Firefox 32).
Clicking the FTP link incorrectly opens the page in Chrome37, which is not the default browser.
(No FTP client is running at this time.)

Firefox is set as default browser.
Thunderbird is set as default email client.
There are no entries in either incomming our outgoing “content-type” lists.
The only add-on is “Disable-you” v:1.1
network.protocol-handler.external-default == 'true' (although I also tested with it set to 'false')

The Error Console shows the following (although it may not be related):
Could not read chrome manifest 'file:///usr/lib64/thunderbird/extensions/%7B972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd%7D/chrome.manifest'.
Timestamp: 10/20/2014 08:54:30 AM
Warning: mutating the [[Prototype]] of an object will cause your code to run very slowly; instead create the object with the correct initial [[Prototype]] value using Object.create
Source File: resource://gre/components/steelApplication.js  Line: 783

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Try resetting (unsetting + setting) firefox as default. 
Thunderbird is just using whatever is set to handle ftp:// links.

Comment 2

[Mahlon]

Yes, thanks. Unsetting then setting default browser corrected whatever flag was causing the incorrect browser to load.
Mahlon

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Ok, marking as invalid.