1344918 - ThunderLink URLs attached to an event or task won't open: NS_ERROR_FAILURE 0x80004005 [nsIExternalProtocolService.loadUrl] at chrome://calendar/content/calendar-event-dialog.js

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Johannes]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:51.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/51.0
Build ID: 20170201175806

Steps to reproduce:

I use Thunderbird 45.7.0 on Ubuntu Linux 14.04.05 with Lightning and the AddOn ThunderLink 1.2.1 from https://addons.mozilla.org/thunderbird/addon/thunderlink/ which allows to open a specifc email by it's message-id from an external program. (To do that, you register the protocol thunderlink:// to open 
 thunderbird[.exe] -thunderlink [variable containing the URL] 
.)

I like to attach Thunderlink-URLs which look like thunderlink://messageid=[e-mail] to tasks and events.


Actual results:

Unfortunately, it is not possible to use them.
When trying to open such an attached URL from an event, I get following error message in error console:

 NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIExternalProtocolService.loadUrl]
source: chrome://calendar/content/calendar-event-dialog.js
line: 2273


Expected results:

The URL should get loaded like any other URL, so ThunderLink can open the given email.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen][☁️📆]]

This sounds like something that should be fixed in Thunderlink, e.g. by catching this case and executing the action. The external protocol service seems to not support thunderlink:// urls.

Please contact the author instead.