268947 - Clicking on an email address does not open Compose

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 202497

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Jim Ronback]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I click on an email address using Foxfire 1.0 it does not open the Compose
facilty in Mozilla which is co-resident with Foxfire.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Go to http://www.corp.delta.bc.ca/searchresultpage.asp?topic=Contact+Us
2.Click on [e-mail]
3.Nothing happens

Actual Results:  
Nothing happened. No link was made to my email program

Expected Results:  
I expected the Compose facility to open up from within Mozilla which is
co-resident. There does not appear to be any provision to specify which email
program I'm using and have the mailto: facility linked to that email program
with the "To:" field filled in

I'm running Windows 2000 Pro

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is a bug in Mozilla Mail that involves not setting itself to be the OS
mailto: handler.  The way Windows works, there should be no need for a setting
within Firefox, the mail app just needs to register properly, since we pass
mailto links to the OS to be handled appropriately.  (All modern OS environments
have some variant on this system).

There is a potential workaround at http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/faq#email

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 202497 ***