Closed Bug 179789 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

request for custom mailto: handler

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
All
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 33282

People

(Reporter: joshk, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111 Phoenix/0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021111 Phoenix/0.4

assign mailto: to a program of your choice that can be setup in Preferences.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click a mailto link.

Actual Results:  
nothing happens :)

Expected Results:  
launched me into sylpheed :P
Bug 11459 is the Mozilla bug for this, but I believe Blake is to implent this
sooner in Phoenix. Marking NEW.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Linux → All
Not sure if this is really planned for Phoenix, since Asa did mark bug 171869,
bug 173087 and bug 173194 as dupes of bug 33282.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33282 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Mass verifiying old duplicates.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Please re-open this as a stand alone bug. It is not a duplicate of 33282,
because that is marked as fixed, while this is still an issue.

I am tempted to resubmit this as a bug, rather than a request for enhancement,
but I thought I would try and use this exsiting report first.

The issue: the mailto links in Firefox under Linux do nothing (at least for me
with Debian/Windowmaker). I use Mutt as my mail client and currently have to use
the Mozex extension to get mailto to do stuff. This is ok, except when you
consider that Mozex is stale (last update in 2003), does not install properly
under 1.0 (manual hack required and even then does not show up in the extensions
list) and is, in the author's own words, "a very ugly hack, in the most negative
sense of the word... and it definitely should go away as soon as possible.)

I'm not sure a Preferences option (as suggested by original reporter) is
necessary, but it would be nice to have a line in about:config that would accept
an external mail client command.

HTH
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