209983 - Mozilla does not recognize the mailto: tag

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 209328

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Michael Eibl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030617
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030617

When clicking on a mailto: href in an html page, I will see an alert box which
tells me that "is not a registered protocol". Placing the mouse cursor over the
link will show a colon (":") in the status line.

When I click on such a link in Safari I will see the same alert. I have
configured Mozilla as my default mail application. In this case the alert box is
difficult to quit: I have to select the "Alert" window from the menu and hit
Return. Clicking on the "OK" button will not work. After quitting, a new Browser
window will open with the mailto: URL in the localization field.

This may be related to bug #58826.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on any mailto: link
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
When clicking on a mailto: href in an html page I will see an alert box which
tells me that "is not a registered protocol".

Expected Results:  
A Compose window should open, and the address given in the mailto: URL should be
copied into the TO: field.

My mozilla files live in a UFS partition.

Changing themes does not fix this bug.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

dupe of bug 209328

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 209328 ***

Comment 2

[Vedran Miletic]

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