209651 - html links not functional in compose message window writing reply

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 163017

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Peto]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529

When I clicked on "Reply" button after reading a message, in Compose window
there none of html links of original message function, even if they are still
blue and underlined.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.be on some mail containing html links
2.click on Reply
3.try to use links that came from original message

Actual Results:  
No links contained in original message copy function, even if they are blue and
underlined like all html links.

Expected Results:  
The links shuld all remain functional, or all convert to plain text. They
shouldn't remain appearing like real html links and be nonfunctional.

Comment 1

[Jim Booth]

This looks like a dupe of Bug 163017 to me.  

Single-clicking is a problem because you need to be able to EDIT the link
without opening it, but adding to the right click menu is an option.

Changing severity to enhancement, platform to all.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 163017 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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