263833 - clicking on a URL should not download the contents prior to showing it

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239965

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Amaury Jacquot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040930

when clicking on an URL in the mail content pane currently downloads the
document to the temporary folder, then launches that document in the browser.
this behavior is ok for attachments, but broken for links inside the text of the
mail (in that case, you want to launch the browser window with the link itself)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. click on a http (or anything else) link inside a mail piece
2. browser opens
3. see 'file:///tmp/blah' in the location bar, instead of the URL...
the document hence has no picture, no css, no nothing, and is unusable



Expected Results:  
the url is opened in the browser, not a document cached in the temp folder

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Appears to be a dupe of bug 239965; altho that's listed as a Windows bug, my 
understanding is there is no "default browser" in Linux except via certain Gnome 
extensions.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, duping.
Note that aviary builds since about 0.7 are supposed to have this fixed; the 
dupe is still open waiting for a fix on the trunk.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239965 ***