242163 - mailto should work even for every unexperienced users

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Konrad]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

in few words: when i press some mailto link in firefox it should open associated
email agent. At this moment in Linux we should make some our own changes to make
it available

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Firefox does use your default e-mail client set in the Gnome Control Center.

The only problem was that Firefox 0.8 had the
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto option set to false (which was wrong,
it should have been true), but this has been fixed on trunk (can't give you
exact bug number, sorry), and probably on the 0.9 branch, too.

So making Firefox use your default e-mail client is now really easy, just set
your default e-mail client in your Gnome options.

Thus, this bug is rather invalid. 

Comment 2

[Ali Ebrahim]

Per comment 1.