221077 - Thunderbird doesn't handle mailto: URLs sent it from other Mac OS X applications

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 234541

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Len Perroots]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

From within Apple Safari, clicking on a mailto: link does not open a blank email
document as expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Make Thunderbird the default email client 
2. Open Safari
3. Click a mailto: link

Actual Results:  
The following error window text is displayed (only when Thunderbird is already
open):
Error launching browser window:TypeError:
Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/component/browser/instance;1'] has no
properties

When Thunderbird is NOT opened, the app launches and nothing happens - no error
msg, etc..

Expected Results:  
A blank email document should open. To: should be prepopulated.

Should also support prepopulation of email subject (if included in mailto: link).

Also, when the error message displays, the "OK" button is not responsive. I must
click several times before it closes, even though focus is on the window.

Comment 1

[Josh Santangelo]

Still present in 0.3.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Revising Summary and raising Severity. Note also possible crash related to this
problem in bug 228484.

Comment 3

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

Confirming...  I get this often on 0.5 release (OS 10.3) with clicking on
mailto: links from Firefox.  Thunderbird's inbox window is displayed but no
compose box ever comes up.   This seems like a major problem... I'm just hoping
it's fixed before those I share the computer with discover the bug (I just
switched it from Mozilla 1.6 to Firefox/Thunderbird last week).

Comment 4

[Hiro]

When "mailto:" was clicked by firebird in the following combination, the window
of "Mozilla" was displayed one after another.
(It had happened that it was like having fitted into the trap of a browser crusher.)
I cannot check whether this problem is still immediately reproduced by the
newest version.

The Japanese version bugzilla reports.
http://bugzilla.mozilla.gr.jp/show_bug.cgi?id=3299

It may become a fatal problem if this problem is still reproduced.


The reproduction step when reporting to the Japanese version bugzilla:
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.2a (20030815)
 -- It is set as default mail.
 -- It quits, supposing it has started.

Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1+(It is nightly build at the 2003-08-19 time about.)
 -- It is set as default browser.
 -- The link of "mailto:" is clicked.

Comment 5

[Hiro]

(In reply to comment #4)
> When "mailto:" was clicked by firebird in the following combination, the window
> of "Mozilla" was displayed one after another.
> (It had happened that it was like having fitted into the trap of a browser
crusher.)
> I cannot check whether this problem is still immediately reproduced by the
> newest version.

The above-mentioned problem did not occur in the following newest versions.
But the bug of this report is still reproduced.

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; ja-JP; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040322
Firefox/0.8.0+
Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5+ (20040327)

Comment 6

[louis bennett]

(duping to a newer bug b/c it has a patch)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234541 ***

Comment 7

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified dupe