276276 - Clicking a URL in a mail message launches the URL but does not send cookies to site

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 267378

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Dan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217

After upgrading from 1.7.3 to 1.7.5 if I am sent a URL in an e-mail and I click
on the URL to launch it the page is opened in Mozilla browser as normal. 
However if the URL being opened is a site that uses cookies and a cookie has
already been set (such as forums that you have already logged onto) it seems
that the cookie is not sent back to the site when opening the URL from the mail
client and you invariably get a "you are not logged in" message!

Reproducible: Always




This is stopping me from using Mozilla v1.7.5 as I use a lot of forums which
e-mail you when topics have been updated, normally you would then click on the
URL in the e-mail and reply back but this is not possible due to this bug.

Comment 1

[Dan]

Strangely, right clicking on the URL and selecting "Open Link In A New Window"
or "Open Link In A New Tab" works as it should but left clicking on the URL is
broken as per the bug.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

xref bug 267378

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

There are several known issues around clicks from the mail program.  At least 
one of these issues was addressed by the fix for bug 267378; it's quite possible 
that has fixed this problem as well.

Try the latest 1.7 build:
  http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/nightly/latest-1.7/

If this problem is solved, please mark this bug as dupe of 267378.

Comment 4

[Dan]

Bug was fixed when Bug 267378 was fixed

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 267378 ***