227961 - links in messages do not open browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216252

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Marecandja]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I have the same problem described by the reporter of bug 221909. I have followed
the release note of v0.4 concerning the xremote client. It will only work when
Firebird is already opened, otherwise, nothing happens.

My script looks like this:

#!/bin/sh

export MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME=/usr/local/MozillaFirebird
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME

# get URL to load
url=$1; [ -z $url ] && url=about:blank

# try xremote first
/usr/local/thunderbird/mozilla-xremote-client openURL\($url,new-window\)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make sure the default browser isn't running.
2. read a message (HTML) in the preview pane.
3. click on an HTML link in the message.
Actual Results:  
nothing

Expected Results:  
a broswer window should open and navigate to the link destination.

Comment 1

[Brett I. Holcomb]

It sure would be nice if Thunderbird could handle links to urls, etc. without
all the nonsense of scripting and modifying user.js.  I find it hard to believe
that a mail client based on Mozilla which could do this is not capable of it. 
From reading other bugs it appears the TBird people don't consider it an issue.

Comment 2

[Brett I. Holcomb]

It sure would be nice if Thunderbird could handle links to urls, etc. without
all the nonsense of scripting and modifying user.js.  I find it hard to believe
that a mail client based on Mozilla which could do this is not capable of it. 
From reading other bugs it appears the TBird people don't consider it an issue.

Comment 3

[Andreas Kunz]

Is this different from bug 216252?

Comment 4

[Brian Rogers]

Yeah, this looks like a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 216252 ***