248811 - URL's will not open when clicked in email.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 247644

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[David Bate]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9

When clicking URL's in emails or newsgroups, the url will not open to the
browser (ie. Firebird or IE).  Nothing happens, it just sits there.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click URL in email.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
URL should open in Firebird or IE.

This hasn't worked for me since the official 0.7 and it still doesn't work with
the 0.7.1 and 0.7+ builds.

Comment 1

[Wayne Woods]

Same here, Thunderbird 0.7+ (20040828), Windows XP.

It works on the trunk nightlies, however. It just stopped working when I decided
to try out the latest 0.8 branch nightly.

Comment 2

[Wayne Woods]

Forgot to mention...
- Starting with a fresh profile doesn't fix it.
- Using "Set Program Access and Defaults" to switch the default browser to IE or
Mozilla works for me (unlike the reporter). Switching it back to Firefox brings
back the problem.
- Works fine if I install the latest trunk nightly of Thunderbird over the top
of the 0.8 branch build, so definitely a branch issue.

Comment 3

[jwq]

I believe this is a duplicate of Bug 221909.

David, Wayne: Please check Bug 221909 and mark this bug as a duplicate if you
agree that it is (based on the comments here and in Bug 247644, Bug 221909 might
need to be reopened).

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Bug 247644 contains all necessary informations to workaround this problem. So
duping this one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 247644 ***