253284 - Text wrapping truncates clickable links at newline

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5351

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Brendan Chandler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040701 Firefox/0.9.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040701 Firefox/0.9.1

When receiving messages that have text wrapped, long URL links will lose their
clickability after the newline when the link text is wrapped.  

While I think this is mostly a problem for the sender, it would be a useful
feature to be able to select the link and perhaps middle click on it to open it
in a browser.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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2.
3.

Comment 1

[Doug Hockin]

This happens on Windows 2000 as well.  Would the reporter change the
"OS:" to "All"?

Also, still happens on TBird 0.9.

Comment 2

[Scott Evans]

I still see this in Thunderbird 1.0.  It's so obviously wrong that I feel like I
must be missing a configuration option...?

(In reply to comment #0)
> User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040701 Firefox/0.9.1
> Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7)
Gecko/20040701 Firefox/0.9.1
> 
> When receiving messages that have text wrapped, long URL links will lose their
> clickability after the newline when the link text is wrapped.  
> 
> While I think this is mostly a problem for the sender, it would be a useful
> feature to be able to select the link and perhaps middle click on it to open it
> in a browser.
> 
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1.
> 2.
> 3.

Comment 3

[Vincent]

Confirmed it still occurs under 1.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0). 
This is quite annoying as I am using TWiki a lot and with long topic lines/URLs,
this totally breaks 'clickability' of the link.

Note that I am aware of the autorewrap extension (http://autorewrap.mozdev.org/)
but the problem does not lie here. I am speaking about display instead, not
replies. The problem is also not with format=flowed (which I find great btw).

The issue is simply with displaying URLs links in full and not line-break them
so that they remain clickable.

Comment 4

[Phil Hord]

(In reply to comment #3)
> The issue is simply with displaying URLs links in full and not line-break them
> so that they remain clickable.

It should be noted that the received email already has the line-break in it. 
This is what causes the problem.  At the very least, Thunderbird should
implement the angle-brackets-for-long-urls trick that is in the URL RFC:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1738.html

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Core bug 5351 (perhaps misfiled as a "MIME" bug) addresses this same problem.

Comment 6

[Brendan Chandler]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 5351 ***