1122920 - In Thunderbird v. 31.4.0, the "Insert-Link" url drop-down does not allow pasting of the desired Link Location; a "(No named anchors or headings in this page.)" message appears.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1044336

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[matt]

Attachment: Write-Insert-Link problem screenshot.docx

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Goal:
Send a functional website link to someone.

Actions taken:
Following an automated update of Thunderbird to v. 31.4.0 on 1/17/2015, opened Thunderbird to send an e-mail
Went back to the internet, selected a website, right clicked and selected "copy"
Went back to Thunderbird 
Clicked on "Write" to compose an e-mail
Clicked on the main body of the e-mail to compose the e-mail
Left-clicked on "Insert"
Left-clicked on "Link"
In the drop-down box that appeared, clicked on the space under "Link Location"
Right clicked to "Paste" the copied website location


Actual results:

The pop-up menu that should have appeared to allow Paste did not appear.
Instead, the following message popped up:
"(No named anchors or headings in this page)"


Expected results:

The website location should have been pasted into the "Link Location" box.

The "Link Location" works (and is functional) only when the website is manually entered.  But for longer websites, this is not very practical, and the ability to paste into the "Link Location" box is necessary.

It would be even better if functional website addresses could be pasted directly into the e-mail text without having to go through the "Insert-Link" process.