143608 - Opening mail links in new window doesn't work when viewing mail in new window

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 138826

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Peter Doyle]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461) /*
forged IE6 agent, its really Moz 1.0RC2 */
BuildID:    2002051006 (Mozilla 1.0 RC2)

I usually read mail by double clicking a message title in mailnews.  This causes
the message to be displayed in a new window.

When I view the message in a new window and try to right click a link and select
"Open Link in New Window", absolutely nothing happens.  The link does not open
at all, even in preexisting windows.

If I try the same thing while viewing the message in the three-pane interface,
the link correctly opens in a new window.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message in a new window (one that has a link inside) by
double-clicking the message title in mailnews
2. Right click a link in the message body and select "Open Link in New Window"
from the context menu.


Actual Results:  Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  The link should open in a new browser window.

This bug seems to be similar to bug 101955, except that this applies to trying
to open the link in a new window via use of the context menu (instead of
middle-clicking).

I am seeing this problem with Mozilla 1.0 RC1 and RC2 in Win2k.

Comment 1

[Peter Doyle]

Updating the Summary field to reflect that this only affects the ability to open
a link in a new window.

Comment 2

[Peter Doyle]

Updating as a duplicate of bug 138826.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 138826 ***

Comment 3

[[e-mail] (gone - use [e-mail] instead)]

verified dup