279164 - Unable to launch URL links from Thunderbird with Firefox set as default browser

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Found using 20050120 Firefox 1.0+, but I have seen this on the trunk builds the
past few days,

STR:

1.  Using Thunderbird mail (1.0), I click on a link to go to a Bugzilla URL.  On
the Mac, this freezes the app and doesn't allow you to do anything. On Windows,
it launches the start page instead of taking me to the Bugzilla URL.

Expected: The Bugzilla URL should launch. Tested using FF 1.0 and this works
fine.  Need to find the regression window.

Comment 1

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

this regressed on windows builds between 2005-01-17-08-trunk(works as expected)
and 2005-01-18-15-trunk (only opens homepage)

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

Probably fallout from bug 276588 - ccing bsmedberg

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I explicitly tested these codepaths before checkin. Can I get details about the
builds involved (self-built, zips, installed), and whether this is using the
regular commandline or windows DDE?

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Benjamin: When I was testing the Win XP build I was using the installer. On Mac
there is only one choice. Tracy also tested Windows, not sure which build he used.

Comment 5

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

I used installers.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Cool, I traced this down, patch shortly.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: ResolveURI should work without mWorkingDir

Comment 8

[Benjamin Smedberg]

fixed on trunk. Can I express my appreciation for these quick QA reports? They
make tracking down regressions *much* easier.

Comment 9

[OstGote!]

*** Bug 279194 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[Mel Reyes]

Though after the fact, the title of this bug should be changed, to "Unable to
launch URL links from any program with Firefox set as default browser".

I thought I was going crazy and stopped using optimized builds because of this,
also stopped using some tabs extensions thinking it was them.  Just pulled the
beast build and all my external url calls, thunderbird included, work just fine
now, thanks for the great work.

Comment 11

[Worcester12345]

(In reply to comment #8)
> fixed on trunk. Can I express my appreciation for these quick QA reports? They
> make tracking down regressions *much* easier.

See? Some of these nightly testers, with their whining and complaining actually
DO help and have a role in the development process. :-)

Comment 12

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Perhaps the nightly QA people feel unloved, but you do a valuable service for
the hackers who sometimes spend weeks in their own hacked-up builds and never
use a downloaded build. I always appreciate good bug reports (though not whining
and complaining).

Comment 13

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

looks good on windows Fx trunk build 2005-01-21-07-trunk

will let marcia verifiy against Mac

Comment 14

[philippe (part-time)]

This doesn't work correctly yet on Mac OS X.
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050121
Firefox/1.0+ (PowerBook)

Comment 15

[philippe (part-time)]

(OS X 10.3.7)
Checking Console.app, I see this:
Warning: unrecognized command line flag -psn_0_20578305

FireFox JS Console only gives this:
Error: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED) [nsIPrefBranch.getCharPref]"  nsresult: "0x8000ffff
(NS_ERROR_UNEXPECTED)"  location: "JS frame ::
file:///Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsDefaultCLH.js ::
clh_handle :: line 81"  data: no]
Source File:
file:///Applications/firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/components/nsDefaultCLH.js
Line: 81

Comment 16

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Using today's build, I am still having to Force-Quit when I have the FF build
open and try to launch a link from Thunderbird.

Comment 17

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

philippe, are you seeing what marcia sees in comment 0 and comment 16?

should we reopen this bug, or open a new one for this mac hang issue?

Comment 18

[philippe (part-time)]

(In reply to comment #17)
> philippe, are you seeing what marcia sees in comment 0 and comment 16?
> 
> should we reopen this bug, or open a new one for this mac hang issue?

Same behaviour as in comment #0, except I use Mail.app instead of Thunderbird.
Same problem with NetNewsWire (2.0b10).

(I had filed Bug 279194, which tells what I see, problem started with the 01/18
build, I use the powerbook builds, which are identical to the official nightly
builds, but optimized for PowerBooks).

Comment 19

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Let's leave this bug about this windows issue, which is fixed, and reopen or
file a new bug about the mac issues. The only mac I have access to is MF
planetoid, and it is running out of disk space and I can't always open a VNC
session. Assistance getting access to one of the other QA macs could be very
helpful (or cleaning up diskspace on planetoid).

Comment 20

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

okay, I'm reopening bug 279194 to cover the remaining Mac issue.