192583 - Clicking external links does nothing

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 192286

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Sam Hulick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030209
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030209

Clicking any external links in other apps does not make Mozilla go to the URL
like it used to.  Even start->run and entering a URL does nothing at all.

This feature has broken more and more with recent builds.  Last month, it worked
fine.  You could even have this line in your user.js file:

user_pref("advanced.system.supportDDEExec", false);

and clicking links would open new windows (IE equiv of "Do not reuse windows")

In later builds, this supportDDEExec variable failed to work, and any external
link would reuse current browser windows.

And now, in 2/9 build, clicking external links does nothing at all.  Maybe it's
just me.  But I did a complete uninstall of my previous build and the
mozilla.org dir in Program Files was wiped out.  So it should be a clean install.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

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Comment 2

[timeless]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 192286 ***