225494 - crash or fail to open compose dialogue when set as default mail client for OS X 10.3 (panther)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 228484

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Noah Lapidus]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031026 Firebird/0.7

If set as default mail client, Thunderbird crashes when a "mailto:" link is
clicked in IE 5.23 or Safari 1.1; fails to open a compose dialogue when a
"mailto:" link clicked from firebird or camino.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. To select default mail client for Panther, use preferences for Apple's
default mail app (Applications - Mail - Preferences - General -Default Email
Reader).  Select Thunderbird.
2. Open Safari or IE and find any page with an email link
("mailto:[e-mail]").  Click the email link.  
3. Open Camino or Firebird and find any page with an email link.  Click the
email link.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird crashes (step 2)

Thunderbird does not crash, but does not open the compose dialogue.

Expected Results:  
open compose email dialogue with email address from browser in to field

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

Don may be interested in looking into this. 

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Duping to bug 228484, since it has a stack trace.

The non-crash part of the mailto: handling problem on OS X is bug 221077.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228484 ***