188289 - Inappropriate linkification in newsreader

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 183111

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Hyman Rosen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021212

Automatic linkification of strings that look like URLs can be very annoying in
some contexts. For example, the C++ newsgroups are full of postings that contain
things like "std::string", which becomes linkified. Clicking on the link results
in a "std is not a recognized protocol" message.

Perhaps Mozilla should try to look up the protocol first, and if it doesn't
recognize it, then it shouldn't linkify the text.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Read some messages in comp.lang.c++.moderated or comp.std.c++.
Actual Results:  
You see things like std::string and Foo::Bar being linkified.

Expected Results:  
They should display as ordinary text.

Comment 1

[Benedikt Kantus]

This is a duplicate of Bug #183111. Can anyone please set this one as Resolved
-> Duplicate?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 183111 ***