Closed Bug 251161 Opened 21 years ago Closed 20 years ago

TB does not handle nntp:// or news:// links

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: lagrave+bugs+mozilla.org, Assigned: mscott)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 When I encounter news:// or nntp:// links and have TB as my default news client, clicking the links brings TB to the front and nothing more happens. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Expected Results: I want TB to connect to the server and, if a group is specified, open that group.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202497 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Plase note that the bug that this was marked as a duplicate of is Windows-specific and this bug is aimed at Mac OS X. AFAIK, Windows and Mac OS X has very different mechanisms when it comes to laucnh default programs/protocol handlers.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
Tbird 1.0, OSX 10.3.latest, following a news:// URL in Firefox causes Tbird to activate and attempt to subscribe. If the server is not in my account list, it launches the new account wizard.
URL: news://news.mozilla.org:119/netscape....
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago → 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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