Closed Bug 157921 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Some links in Outlook email bring up Internet Explorer instead of Mozilla

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
UI Design
Platform:
x86
Windows 95
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED INVALID

People

(Reporter: plewispdx, Assigned: samir_bugzilla)

References

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URL
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Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530
BuildID:    2002053012

Here's an example extracted from one email. The Hugo Book link brings up IE.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 FINAL//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Visor Village Newsletter</TITLE>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.3105.105" name=GENERATOR>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" rgb="#000000" VLINK="#004080" ALINK="#FFFFFF"
LINK="#2e5c5c">

var_a = ( OAS_url + 'click_nx.ads/' + var_aa + '!' + pos);
var_b =(var_a + '?' + OAS_query + '" TARGET=' + OAS_target );
<a
href="http://www.visorvillage.com/articles/2002/7/2002-7-15-Six-2002-Hugo.html"><b>Six
2002 Hugo Book Nominees Now Free eBooks</b></a>

</body>
</html>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
See Description for email that fails when I click the link in the Outlook email. 

Actual Results:  The failure is the Mozilla (my default browser) doesn't come
up, but IE.

Expected Results:  Mozilla should be the browser invoked when clicking on these
links.
Outlook uses Inernet Explorer to render HTML mail.   So when you are opening an
HTML message in Outlook, You're really seeing an IE object "wrapped up" in an
Outlook Message window.   So when you're cliking a URL in such a message, you're
telling IE to handle that link.

On the other hand, when you receive a normail email, with the text
http://<someurl> , Outlook will use the registered application to handle the
HTTP:// protocol.  (netscape, IE, mozilla, etc..)     I believe this is why you
are noticing some links open moz, and some open IE.

-> INVALID   (not a mozilla bug)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
vrfy
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
*** Bug 146867 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 137435 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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