114843 - News urls can not be saved with context menu

Status: NEW

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Jerome Lacoste]

According to
http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/xpfe/communicator/resources/content/nsContextMenu.js#390


  // We don't do the Right Thing for news/snews yet, so turn them off
  // until we do.

This prevents us from opening a news in a 

I didn't find any bug for that in Bugzilla. This bug apparently blocks bug 110065.

If this one is a duplicate, don't forget to move the blocker bug link.
If this problem doesn't exist, rewrite isLinkSaveable as:

isLinkSaveable : function ( link ) {
  return !(this.isLinkType( "mailto:" , link )     ||
           this.isLinkType( "javascript:" , link ) );
},

Comment 1

[timeless]

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Comment 2

[Jerome Lacoste]

Note that one can save a news as text once it has been loaded in the browser,
using File | Save As.

Please try to find a better title. I couldn't come up with something better,
this one is too generic [Missing the 'context-menu' context].

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

->mailnews fe?

Comment 4

[scottputterman]

Changing title because news messages can be saved in the mail window.

Comment 5

[Arun Prasannan (polar)]

This bug is being marked EXPIRED as it has seen no activity in a very long time.

If you think that the issue reported might still be relevant, please test with a recent release of SeaMonkey and if the problem persists feel free to re-open the report. Thank you.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Comment 6

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Bulk reopening incorrectly expired bugs - no activity does not constitute no bug - these need proper checking.