Closed Bug 1700617 Opened 4 years ago Closed 3 years ago

After using "Recommentations / Find more add-ons", clicking on an add-on via link or in the dropdown list opens a window in external browser

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(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, defect)

defect

Tracking

(thunderbird_esr78? wontfix, thunderbird88 unaffected, thunderbird89 unaffected, thunderbird90 unaffected, thunderbird91 unaffected)

RESOLVED WONTFIX
Tracking Status
thunderbird_esr78 ? wontfix
thunderbird88 --- unaffected
thunderbird89 --- unaffected
thunderbird90 --- unaffected
thunderbird91 --- unaffected

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(Reporter: u682155, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/89.0.4389.90 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Click on an add-on that is suggested in the dropdown list (see attached screenshot).

Actual results:

The add-on page opened in my external browser.

Expected results:

The add-on page should have opened inside Mozilla Thunderbird.

I was not able to confirm this on Windows with TB 78.9.0 or Linux with TB 78.7.1.

What OS and Version are you using?

Microsoft Windows Pro 20H2 64-bit
Mozilla Thunderbird 78.9.0 64-bit

I added a screen recording of the issue.

Can you try this in a fresh profile to make sure it is not an add-on which is messing with the default onclick handler?

(In reply to John Bieling (:TbSync) from comment #4)

Can you try this in a fresh profile to make sure it is not an add-on which is messing with the default onclick handler?

Created a new profile via the Profile Manager and the same behaviour occurs in there.

Walt does this reproduce for you?

Flags: needinfo?(wls220spring)

No.

I only get a drop-down list when I am searching https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/ from within Firefox.

When searching using Tools > Add-ons within Thunderbird, I need to click the Search icon to have it return results in a tab in Thunderbird.

Then I can click on the extensions name to learn more about it, or click the "Add to Thunderbird" button.

Flags: needinfo?(wls220spring)

Doesn't reproduce here either, but it's also not clear what the exact steps are. I did:

  • Open add-ons manager in TB. Search for TbSync.
  • Search results for TbSync open in new TB tab.
  • Clicking on the TbSync result opens the TbSync page in the same tab.
  • Now using the search box to look for, say, "Remove" and clicking onto one of the suggestions, does open the suggestion in the very same tab.

Reporter, are those the steps you're using?

(In reply to José M. Muñoz from comment #8)

Doesn't reproduce here either, but it's also not clear what the exact steps are. I did:

  • Open add-ons manager in TB. Search for TbSync.
  • Search results for TbSync open in new TB tab.
  • Clicking on the TbSync result opens the TbSync page in the same tab.
  • Now using the search box to look for, say, "Remove" and clicking onto one of the suggestions, does open the suggestion in the very same tab.

Reporter, are those the steps you're using?

I get the same results as you when I do this. However, I look for add-ons by clicking on the "Find more add-ons" at the bottom of the Recommendations page in the Add-on manager.

When you search add-ons via this method, it will open a page in your external browser, instead of a Mozilla Thunderbird tab.

I can confirm that. I suggest to change the summary of the bug to:
After using "Recommentations / Find more add-ons", clicking on an add-on via link or in the dropdown list opens a window in external browser
Click on "Edit Bug" to change the summary.

As you can see, you've already tricked three people who couldn't reproduce, but you didn't trick me ;-) - No offence intended.

Summary: Clicking on an add-on in the dropdown list opens a window in my external browser → After using "Recommentations / Find more add-ons", clicking on an add-on via link or in the dropdown list opens a window in external browser

(In reply to José M. Muñoz from comment #10)

I can confirm that. I suggest to change the summary of the bug to:
After using "Recommentations / Find more add-ons", clicking on an add-on via link or in the dropdown list opens a window in external browser
Click on "Edit Bug" to change the summary.

As you can see, you've already tricked three people who couldn't reproduce, but you didn't trick me ;-) - No offence intended.

The veil has fallen. I was hoping to occupy you guys for a longer time but then you had to show up and wrap things up. :(

Nice find however, it never occurred to me to use that in-app search bar. I am used to just getting add-ons via the website (but inside of Mozilla Thunderbird, not outside), so I always just quickly resort to the "Find more add-ons" to see the place I have always been familiar with.

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So, the steps to reproduce are?

  • In Thunderbird select Tool > Add-ons, or just Add-ons from the Menu button
  • Scroll down to the bottom of "Recommendations"
  • Click the "Find more add-ons" button

When I do that, https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/ opens in new Thunderbird tab for me using 78.9.0 on Fedora 33 Workstation.

When I do the same thing as above I also get https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/ in a Thunderbird window. I'm running TB 78.9.0 on a Ubuntu [20.04.2 LTS] desktop, for what it's worth.

When I do that, https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/ opens in new Thunderbird tab for me using 78.9.0 on Fedora 33 Workstation.

Yes, and on that tab, now click on an add-on link. That opens in FF for me.

So, now it isn't clicking the "Find more add-ons" button opens the page in Firefox, but selecting an extension from that tab.

Doing that or clicking the "See All" links does open in a new tab in Firefox for me using Thunderbird 78.9.0.

I checked Beta and Daily on Windows and Linux and all are opening the "See All" link (STR from Comment 15) within Thunderbird. A mozregression run showed it has been fixed with TB86 when fission was activated.

With TB91 around the corner and given the limited resources and a huge todo list, we will not fix this for TB78.

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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