271857 - Default newsreader setting only possible through admin

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 234150

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Gudmund Areskoug]

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

Clicking a newsreader link, like e. g.
snews://secnews.netscape.com/netscape.mozilla.user.general in Firefox (or any
other browser) should result in opening Thunderbird as the default newsreader
with the corresponding option ticked in Thunderbird, logged in as the same
"normal" W2K user. 

This only works for me after logging in as W2K admin, opening TB, unticking the
option, closing TB down, reopening TB and re-ticking the option.

Only after this, TB is used as the default newsreader in my "normal" W2K user
account (although clicking a newsreader link in FF now opens two TB windows...).

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install TB as "normal" user
2. Make sure TB is set as default newsreader in Tools > Options > General
2½. Maybe close TB down
3. Click a newsreader link in your browser, watch something else, like MSOE open
4. Close down, log out, log in as admin
5. Open TB as admin
6. If ticked, untick the default newsreader option, close down
7. If unticked, tick the default newsreader, close down
8. Log back in as "normal" user, now it should work

Actual Results:  
It worked.

Expected Results:  
It should have worked straight after installing, possibly after starting TB the
first time and ticking the option - as that same "normal" user, not as admin,
which is a totally different user. If that were to be standard procedure, TB
should not show the option ticked in the "normal" user, but rather have all such
options greyed out.

The decidedly freakiest part of it, is FF wanting to use *MSOE*, which I've
never even contemplated using, ever, in my life, as a news- and mailreader after
installing TB with all possible option checked to use TB as default everything.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Administrator rights are generally required to set the default -- in the WinXP 
sense of the term -- for any sort of client.  See bug 250675.

Is is possible to make some settings apply without those rights; and for a while 
at least, Thunderbird was not setting the protocol handlers for news: snews: or 
nttp: -- see bug 234150.  I'm not sure if that's been fixed or not.

This bug is a dupe of one of those two, I believe, but I'm not sure which from 
the description.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

re comment #1 - sounds like 234150 to me

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 234150 ***