228484 - clicking mailto: link crashes Thunderbird on Mac OS X [@ AddExtraWindowsToGroup]

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Chuck Musser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Firebird/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031211 Firebird/0.7+

Clicking a mailto: link in a web browser will crash Thunderbird if it is already
running and is specified as the default mail program. This happens with both
Firebird and Safari. I'm using Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20031213).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use the Apple Mail Preferences window to set the default mail reader to
Thunderbird.
2. Open a page with a mailto: link. I used the page listed above.
3.Click the mailto link.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird crashes.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should open and present the mail compose window.

I'm using Panther (10.3.1) on a G5.

Comment 1

[Chuck Musser]

Attachment: Stack Trace

Stack trace from the Apple crash reporter.

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

don do you see this too?

Comment 3

[Don Crandall]

On my G4 this does not occur, but a friend with a G5 was able to duplicate the
crash with the 12-14 build. In fact, much to my surprise, opening a mailto link
into a new compose window actually works in 10.3 (Panther)!

Comment 4

[Chad Dupuis]

This happens on my powerbook running 10.3.2 with Thunderbird 0.4 as well as
tonights 1.12.04 release.  After awhile I get the following error box:

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

This is from clicking on a mailto link within Firebird and having thunderbird as
the default mail app.

Comment 5

[Eric]

Thunderbird doesn't crash for me but I do get this error:

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

It happens when clicking on mailtos in any browser, and is still present in .5
final.

Comment 6

[Scott MacGregor]

Don, you interested in working on this bug with getting mailto links working
right on OSX?

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 225494 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

See also non-crasher bug 221077.

Comment 9

[Joel Nelson (don't send email)]

I don't get a crash but I never get a mail compose window either.

Comment 10

[xolaware.llc]

just a "me, too" report for the dialog box that comes up, but not the crasher.  it seems different than 
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231032 ; apparently, mailto: is working properly for some 
of those folks some of the time.  so perhaps there is some configuration problem that causes it to 
misbehave with the dialog box for us, but works in most cases without spaces in the subject lines for 
them.

Comment 11

[xolaware.llc]

the dialog box

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

as reported by eric on 2004/02/12 is still appearing for me in a newly
downloaded version (0.5+ 20040411)

fairly convinced this might be a configuration problem, since it seems there are
other bugs that indicate that many are not having this problem.

i'd be glad to get into an emacs window in OS X, dired to the proper place,
delete files or text-edit whatever .dat, .rdf, or whatever files are necessary.
 this seems like a major problem to me, and it's really starting to annoy me a
lot.  if someone on the mozilla project has an idea, email me offline, i can
perhaps IM with you to figure out what to do ...

Comment 12

[Scott MacGregor]

this has been fixed in 0.6 by the patch in 234541 which is now in the 0.6
branch. That patch still needs checked into the trunk (in some form). Marking
this fixed will leave 234541 open until it lands in the trunk.

Please verify with the 0.6 candidate builds:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-0.6/

thanks

Comment 13

[Chuck Musser]

With Thunderbird version 0.6b (20040425), this now behaves correctly on my
system: a G5 running OS X 10.3.3. I tested with Firefox 0.8 and Safari 1.2.1 and
tried it with Thunderbird running and not running when I clicked the link. A
mail compose window appeared in all cases.

Comment 14

[Scott MacGregor]

thanks for testing chuck.

Comment 15

[bart decrem, not checking bugmail]

I just tested and am happy to confirm that it works for me as well!