217752 - Error launching browser window message in Thunderbird when clicking on mailto link in Firebird

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 226071

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Jim Strickland]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030826 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2a (20030827)

Whenever a mailto link is selected in Firebird, the following error message
appears in Thunderbird.

Error launching browser
window:TypeError:Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1]
has no properties

This same error occurs when selecting an html link in Thunderbird if Thunderbird
was launched before Firebird. If Firebird is launched first html links in
Thunderbird usually work fine.


Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2a (20030827)

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030826
Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Select a Mail to link in Firebird
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird comes to the foreground with the following message:

Error launching browser
window:TypeError:Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1]
has no properties

Expected Results:  
Mail compose window should launch with email address and subject(if supplied)
provided by mailto link.

This seems to be a problem specifically between Thunderbird and Firebird. Mailto
links in Firebird seem to work fine with other email clients.

Comment 1

[Axel Krause]

This "Error launching browser window message" occurs in every case a browser
is requested but not already loaded (Mozilla 1.4 for instance) !!!
(e.g. http://texturizer.net/thunderbird )
OS: OS X 10.2.6; Java 1.4.1
Thunderbird 0.1 and 0.2

Comment 2

[Craig Harding]

I'm having the same error. When I have Thunderbird 0.2 open first and try to
either create a new process of Mozilla 1.4 OR Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 I get this
error and cannot open a Browser window. 

If I have Mozilla/Mozilla Firebird open first and THEN open Thunderbird I can
open both but trying to opening another Browser will give me the error.

Comment 3

[streamalot]

Same problem:

Thunderbird: 0.2
Firebird: 0.6.1
OS: Linux (Debian - wmaker)

If you open Firebird and then Thunderbird, everything is fine. If you close the
instance of Firebird and then try to re-launch Firebird you get the following error:

Error launching browser window:TypeError:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no
properties

Comment 4

[Adrian David Cheok]

on MAC OSX: I also have exactly the same problem, I am using Mac OSX version of Firebird 0.6.1 
and Thunderbird 0.2

Comment 5

[jonathon jongsma]

I also see the exact same problem as streamalot

Thunderbird: 0.3
Firebird: 0.7
OS: Linux (RH9 - gnome)

I really want to use firebird and thunderbird as my default browser and email
client on linux, but this bug makes it very difficult to do.  

Comment 6

[mephinet]

Hardware: PC
OS: Linux (Debian Woody)

MozillaThunderbird 0.3
MozillaFirebird 0.7

reproducable: always

please, update the bug's os & hardware field to ,all'

Comment 7

[Jeremias Reith]

You get the same problem if you have Firebird/Thunderbird running and want to
start Seamonkey (tested on gentoo)

Comment 8

[Michael Augustin]

Them message from Comment #3 appeares also on SuSE Linux 8.2 with Firebird 0.7
and Thunderbird 0.3, if Thunderbird is running and try to start Firebird with
the following script. 

-- begin --------
#!/bin/sh
FILE=$1

MozillaFirebird -remote "openURL(\"$FILE\",new-window)"

if [ $? -eq 2 ]; then
  exec MozillaFirebird "$FILE"
fi
-- end --------

please change bug-preferences for hardware and os to "all", as said already in
Comment #6 .

thanks.

Comment 9

[Marc Loiselle]

Attachment: A script that can be used to send mailto: to Thunderbird

This script will allow Firebird to send mailto: urls to Thunderbird.

To make this script work you will need to add
(network.protocol-handler.app.mailto,/path/to/thunderbird.sh) to the Firebird
config using the about:config.	Tested with Thunderbird 0.4 and
Firebird/20031206.

Comment 10

[Jim Strickland]

I tried this script with Firebird20031201 and Thunderbird 0.4a20031130. Clicking
on a mailto link only succeded in bringing up another three pane view in
Thunderbird. No email composition window was created.

Comment 11

[Jim Strickland]

I just upgraded to Thunderbird 0.4(20031205) and Firebird 0.7+(20031208). Now
when I click on a mailto link Thunderbird is brought to the foreground then crashes.

Comment 12

[bart decrem, not checking bugmail]

*** Bug 227392 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 13

[mephinet]

I think #226333 is a duplicate of this bug, or at least strongly related

Comment 14

[bart decrem, not checking bugmail]

I just confirmed that the same Thunderbird behavior occurs when clicking on a
mailto link in Safari or Thunderbird 

(interestingly, whereas a few weeks ago, clicking on a mailto link would cause
Thunderbird to crash for me, now, running the 1/4 build, I get the same behavior
as others - when closing the Thunderbird main windows I get a popup saying
"Error launching browser window: TyperError:
Components.classes[@Mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1’] has no
properties")

Comment 15

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

0.4 has already been released

Comment 16

[bart decrem, not checking bugmail]

Can we make this a blocker for a future release?  This seems like a major problem.

Comment 17

[Kevin Teuscher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226071 ***

Comment 18

[Eric]

This problem still exists in Thunderbird .5 final, regardless of the web browser
sending the mailto.  This bug is marked as duplicate of 226071, which was also
marked as fixed, but the problem still exists

Comment 19

[Jacob Friis Larsen]

I also have this problem on Suse 9 Pro using Firefox 0.8 and Thunderbird 0.5

Any solutions?

Comment 20

[Angus Davis]

the bug is not fixed.  i experience it too using the latest nightlies of both
thunderbird/firefox on mac os x.  can someone with the appropriate privileges
please reopen the bug?

Comment 21

[manoa]

this bug is not limited to thunderbird or the combination of 2 mozilla subprojects, it occurs also when building firefox 1.5.0.12 with the option --disable-extensions at the first launch of firefox