271165 - failed referral by many software products

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 267313

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael J Duclos]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041112
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041112

In many programs, you click on an internal link and it refers you to a part of
the company's website with your default browser. Many programs, the last of
which I used is spysweeper or Miranda IM, recognize Mozilla as my default
browser. The problem is Mozilla does not go to the referred page, but to the
browser homepage instead, which in my case is www.mozilla.org because I know
this is a beta. The only solution to this as some of this software gives you
special access to the site, is to temporarily make Explorer my default browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open an affected program
2.Click on a link, like the spyware database in Spysweeper or Miranda IM.
3.It will ignore the link in affected programs, if that link is affected every time

Actual Results:  
Spysweeper has just revised to use an internal browser, but I acheived these
results repeatedly with another program, Miranda IM, as it still uses your
default browser to go to its links. I know there are others I will find again,
so I will keep you posted.

Expected Results:  
Gone to the correct link that these programs refer the browser to, this is
relatively minor and I find this beta more stable than final releases of other
companies, so good luck.

Comment 1

[Josh Birnbaum]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267313 ***