164710 - When clicking a link, a new window should be created immediately and not after the DNS lookup is done

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 130671

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

When you receive a link via an email and no other Navigator window is opened
and you click in that link, MailNews makes the DNS lookup and then opens
a new window if the DNS lookup succeded. If DNS does not succeed, then MailNews
is the one that shows you the error message.
This leave MailNews busy while he does the DNS lookup.

It would be better if MailNews pass the URL to Navigator and Navigator makes
the DNS looukup and error handling.
The Navigator window should be opended immediately after you click on the link.

Maybe this need is a [RFE] in the summary, don't know.

This seems to be the steps that MailNews does now:
1. event received: click on a http link
2. show busy icon animation in upper right
3. try to DNS resolve the hostname
3.1. -> if error, show error message, stop.
4. try to connect to the hostname 
4.1. -> if error, show error message, stop.
5. stop busy icon animation in upper right

This should be the steps for MailNews
1. event received: click on a http link
2. show busy icon animation in upper right
3. call Navigator and pass the link as parameter
4. stop busy icon animation in upper right

Comment 1

[Aaron Lawrence]

Confirming in Mozilla 1.2a Win32.
This is silly because it means you have to sit around waiting for the lookup to
work before you can go on using your mail client (e.g. looking at another message).

BTW This might be related to the famous "show error pages not dialogs" bug 28586.
Also related to bug 35578 about opening new windows for every link clicked in
mailnews.

Comment 2

[http://tinymailto.com/oliversl]

Comfirming in Mozilla 1.2.1 on WinXP SP1

Comment 3

[Lincoln Ramsay]

This also applies to opening a new window/tab in the browser.

Comment 4

[Ian Neal]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 130671 ***