296190 - mailto is automatically opened upon page-visit without javascript enabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181860

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Floris van Gog]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

It is allowed apperantly to have a mailto: url in an img tag. This will
automatically open the default mailclient and starts a new message.

See URL for results. Sometimes it opens 3 mail windows, sometimes 1. 

Since the default mailclient could be anything, a javascript injection could be
possible. In my case, even though I have thunderbird installed as DEFAULT,
Firefox STILL OPENED Outlook Express!

Internet Explorer features the same bug.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a page with <img src="mailto:whatever">
2. load page
3.

Actual Results:  
opens a new mail window

Expected Results:  
disallow mailto in passive urls such as images and NOT open a mail window

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181860 ***