238690 - URLs in Message Subject line not clickable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 23114

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Keith Bissett]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

URLs in the message subject line aren't clickable.

Note that the URLs are not blue or underlined either.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive an email with a URL in the Subject Line.
2. Try to click on the URL.
Actual Results:  
highlights the word clicked on.

Expected Results:  
Opened the link in my web browser.

Comment 1

[Avi Drissman]

Well, I can confirm this bug as indeed being the current behavior.

Whether or not URLs in the Subject line _should_ be clickable is a different
matter. :)

Comment 2

[Dan Kohn]

People send me lots of links.  Sometimes they're lazy and put the link in the
Subject.  I don't see a reasonable argument why these links shouldn't be
clickable.  Please treat this as a real bug.

Comment 3

[Matjaz]

Agreed. Plus this feature is found in other mail clients so people expect it to
be there.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Magnus, would there be any security concerns for this?

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, the area is chrome, so at least you'd have to be careful I think.

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 23114?