206875 - a mailto href in an HTML Mail does run into an endless loop

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 198547

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Kaj Kandler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030522
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030522

If I view a HTML Mail and click on a mailto:[e-mail] link, Mozilla seems to
start a background thread which never comes up with the compose window as
supposed to.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View a HTML E-Mail with an embeded mailto: link
2. Click on it.
3.

Actual Results:  
You get a busy cursor, an obviously busy processor (slow repsonse of almost
every thing) and no compose window ever.



Expected Results:  
A compose window in less than a second. No overly busy processor.

The machine gets really busy and the focus of the browser is diverted
constantly. For example try to go to the Browser window of mozilla, after you
did click on the mailto link. Try to go to a page with a form and enter
something on a form field. The browser gets carzy with its focus. It does not
show the blinking cursor and the Window header does not stay blue (indicating
the focus of Widows is on the window), it turns grey immediately. The entry of
text is also blocked (understandably if it looses focus).

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Note there is a workaround in the duplicate:
set the preference for 
  network.protocol-handler.external.mailto   to    false

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 198547 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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