282343 - Hyperlink Displayed As Text In New Message Window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 176525

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, enhancement)

Description

[jay garcia]

There HAS to be a bug on this somewhere but could not find one.

When typing a message in text mode, a hyperlink is not displayed as a "live"
link but remains as text only. Would be of great benefit to actually see the
link as a live link for testing purposes among other reasons. Most, if not all,
email applications that I've seen/used display hyperlinks as "live" when typing
in a compose window.

Comment 1

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

I believe this is a dup of bug 163017 .

Comment 2

[jay garcia]

Similar enh request but not quite the same as the original bug involved Win2k,
Core, etc and requires the user to right-click to context a choice to "browse
link". I would much rather see the enh as "link as you type".

Need clarification from mscott as to dupe or not I would think. Also, no
activity for three years now.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #2)
> the original bug involved Win2k, Core, etc 

If it says Core, it's *more* likely to be a dupe.
If it says "Win2K" that usually means that the bug was reported from a Win2K 
machine and nobody has updated the platform to All.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 176525 ***