302991 - "Try again" link gives External Protocol Request warning for chrome://global/content/netError.xhtml

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 237244

(Core Graveyard :: File Handling, defect)

Description

[Anders Kaseorg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050729 Fedora/1.1-0.2.5.deerpark.alpha2 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b3) Gecko/20050729 Fedora/1.1-0.2.5.deerpark.alpha2 Firefox/1.0+

If Thunderbird fails to load a message for some reason, a "Try again" link
appears in place of the message. Clicking on this link, however, results in this
potentially confusing warning:

External Protocol Request

An external application must be launched to handle chrome: links. Requested link:

chrome://global/content/netError.xhtml?e=connectionFailure&u=...blah...

If you were not expecting this request it may be an attempt to exploit a
weakness in that other program. Cancel this request unless you are sure it is
not malicious.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a newsgroup.
2. Disconnect from the network, or otherwise annihilate the server in question.
3. Open a message that hasn't been cached.
4. Click OK on the "Failed to connect" alert.
5. Click "Try again".
Actual Results:  
See above.

Comment 1

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

which thunderbird version?

Comment 2

[Anders Kaseorg]

Sorry. I'm using Thunderbird 1.0.6-0.1.fc5 (20050719) on Fedora Core development.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

oh. there have been a lot of error page fixes since then. I'm going to assume
that this was fixed by bug 237244 (because this works for me in trunk builds).

1.0.x won't get any of those fixes, but the next version of thunderbird (1.5 I
guess) should have them, as do nightly trunk builds.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 237244 ***