267110 - Hyperlinks from MS Office 2003 do not open when mozilla is default browser

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 266563

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Siddharth Kamath]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041031
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041031

Hyperlinks from MS Office 2003, in particular Word 2003 are not opened
correctly, mozilla goes to the homepage instead.

I do not if this problem extends to other programs and other versions of Office
other testers are invited to check this

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Make sure mozilla is your default browser
2.Type in a URL in Microsoft Word 2003 and let Word convert it to a hyperlink
3.It asks you to CTRL + click it to launch, do so


Actual Results:  
Mozilla opened up to the home page

Expected Results:  
The URL specified opened

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Reporter, are there any errors in the JS console?

Comment 2

[Siddharth Kamath]

checked it but it had no errors on my machine.

I have noticed that this problem is not limited to Office only all external
programs are affected including Eudora.

Comment 3

[Kirill Yushkov]

In night build 20041025 all works.

Comment 4

[Kirill Yushkov]

Night build 20041030 don't ñontains this bug.

Comment 5

[Siddharth Kamath]

Are you sure that it works for  those october builds? That seems strange because
it still does not work on 20041106 and later. Whatever went wrong must have
happened at that time.

Comment 6

[Siddharth Kamath]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 266563 ***

Comment 7

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

verified