234117 - javascript link opens a window of the (non-default) browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 263546

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[farcusnz]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 0.5

In Thunderbird 0.5 when clicking on a javascript link a window is opened in IE
instead of Firefox, my default browser. All other types of links open in Firefox
correctly.
Here is an example of the link:
javascript: void window.open('http://www.slingshot.co.nz/help', '_blank')

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Javascript link within Thunderbird 0.5
2. IE window opens
3.



Expected Results:  
Firefox window should open

Comment 1

[Jack M. Nilles]

I have a similar problem except the link fails entirely. Currently I get either
a blank new window or a  message: "www.XXX.com could not be found. Please check
the name and try again." Yesterday the link opened the proper site but as a file
on my hard drive (stripping out the http://www.XXX.com and replacing it with
file:///C/Documents... etc.) rather than an http URL. the workaround for all of
these is simply to copy the link into firebird/fox.

Comment 2

[Yosha Bourgea]

I have a very similar problem.  I am using Mac OSX (10.2.8).  All HTML links
within e-mails cause Safari to open up instead of my default, Firefox.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Confirming with version 0.7 (20040616)
Updating platform per comment 2

Mozilla 1.8a3 does nothing with this link (similar to comment 1).

Options|Advanced, "Enable Javascript in mail messages" is unchecked.

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Duping to a bug that's gotten a lot more attention.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263546 ***