1494484 - Dialing phone numbers from address book does not work in thunderbird 60

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[knut_petersen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.0
Build ID: 20180807170231

Steps to reproduce:

Updated thunderbird on  openSuSE Tumbleweed to version 60




Actual results:

After update phone numbers in the address book that previously were handled like callto links lost their link-like property. A click on the phone numbers in the address book no longer spawns the external application tipdial (a private bash script) that was successfully used for years.

tipdial still is configured as an external application for callto urns in handlers.json and mimeTypes.rdf.


Expected results:

If an external application is configured as a callto handler clicking on a phone number should execute that external application - this worked for many versions of thunderbird and it was a valuable feature!

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

It worked in version 52?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Walt, are you familiar with this old feature?

Comment 3

[WaltS48 [:walts48]]

No I am not familiar with this feature.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM nowadays.