1949935 - Show a tooltip showing the actual URL and its correctness (compared to its text) on links in emails

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)

Description

[Tatsunori Uchino]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Steps to reproduce:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Recieve an email that contains links like <a href="https://is.it.genuine.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.its.actually.an.evil.phishing.site.example.cn">https://innocent.genuine.example.jp</a>
2. Open the email
3. Put the mouse pointer on the link

Actual results:

A tooltip whose text is something like "https://is.it.genuine.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.its.actually.an.evil.phishing.site.example.cn (Warning! DIfferent from the text!)" appears.

Expected results:

Nothing happens.
It's very inconvenient that users have to open Notepad and copy and paste the URL of a suspicious link there. Without this features, innocent users will be very likely to be phished by the sender.

Comment 1

[Tatsunori Uchino]

Expected Result and Actual Result were reversed.

Correct:

Actual result:

Nothing happens.
It's very inconvenient that users have to open Notepad and copy and paste the URL of a suspicious link there. Without this features, innocent users will be very likely to be phished by the sender.

Expected result:

A tooltip whose text is something like "https://is.it.genuine.nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnno.its.actually.an.evil.phishing.site.example.cn (Warning! DIfferent from the text!)" appears.

Comment 2

[Tatsunori Uchino]

Attachment: Similar tooltip in Outlook (new)

Outlook (new) shows a similar tooltip.
However, it doesn't contain the correctness of the URL in the link.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

As explained in bug 1949933, I don't think this is something we'd do. You can pretty easily create an add-on for it.