260895 - Thunderbird uses IE (yikes!) to open javascript-pop-ups in RSS feed items

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 263546

(MailNews Core :: Feed Reader, defect)

Description

[Tom Braun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10

This page here was delivered through the Reouters RSS feed, which I had
subscribed to (Thunderbird 0.8).

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=6298060&src=rss/scienceNews&section=news

When I view this in Firefox directly, and click on one of the javascript
pop-up links at the top (for example 'Reprints').  It is opened in Firefox,
just as expected.

When I view this pages in the pre-view pane in Thunderbird (when I look at
it as an RSS feed item), and I click on that javascript pop-up link, then
to my horror I have to find that Thunderbird used IE to open that pop-up
window!

Note that Thunderbird correctly uses Firefox to open 'normal' links, i.e.
links that are not javascript:...



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Subscribe to an RSS feed that has pages that also have javascript pop-ups. 
The Reuters feeds seem to be a good example.
2. Look at the item in the preview pane.
3. Identify one of the small 'javascript:...' links on the top, such as the
'Reprints' link.
4. Click on it.
5. Thunderbird will have opened that pop-up with IE !!!
6. If you click on a normal link, it will have used Firefox (if that was set as
the default browser of your system).

Actual Results:  
Pop-up window was opened in IE.

Expected Results:  
It should have opened in Firefox, since that is the default browser.

Again, this only happens for the javascript:... something-or-the-other links,
not for 'normal' links.

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 263546 ***