270119 - Yahoo Messenger not opened automatically from the Yahoo! Messenger "Add a Friend" web page.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Miles Lane]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

After loading my Yahoo! account profile and clicking on "Add to friend list"
under "On Yahoo!", the page says:

     Yahoo! Messenger will now start and let you add your friend.

But, the Yahoo! Messenger does not load.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Log into your Yahoo! account
2.  Click on "My Account", enter password and click Continue.
3.  Click on Edit/Create Profiles
4.  Click on your account name link
(you should now be viewing http://profiles.yahoo.com/<your account name>)
5.  Click on "Add to friend list"


Actual Results:  
Result:

The page displays:

  "Yahoo! Messenger will now start and let you add your friend.
  Please wait..."

The Yahoo! Messenger never starts.

Expected Results:  
I would expect that either the Yahoo! Web Messenger or the Yahoo! Messenger
client would get launched.

I have downloaded the Mime Type editor extension and added a mime type entry
containing:

File type:  application/ymsgr
Extentions: yps,ymg
Program:    Yahoo! Messenger

Comment 1

[Miles Lane]

This problem still shows up with Firefox 1.0.4 for Mac OS/X 10.3.9.  

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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