274201 - Thunderbird should have support for web browsers

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[tron.thomas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When reading an e-mail message formatted in HTML, and the user clicks on a
hyperlink, it would be nice if Thunderbird would active the default web browser
and navigate it to that link.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open an e-mail message formatted in HTML
2.  Click on a hyperlink in that e-mail message

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should open the default web browser with the clicked link

Comment 1

[David :Bienvenu]

this generally works - either there's something odd about your link, or the
mechanism thunderbird is using to find the browser to run isn't configured on
your OS such that we find the program to use. We use ShellExec or something like
that, and it figures out what program to run...

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This only fails for an HTML message?  A plain text message with a URL in it, 
such as this very bugmail you're receiving, *does* work?

xref bug 272519 -- this may be a dupe of that one, and it's a problem I've got 
with my installation as well, something that broke between 0.8 and 0.9 for me.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reporter (tron.thomas) -- please respond to comment 2.

Comment 4

[tron.thomas]

I responded to this a long time in e-mail.  It looks like for whatever reason,
my system, Thunderbird itself, or something else was running slow, and it took a
long time for the web browser to come up

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=> WFM per reporter's comment 3.