303109 - Clicking on mail link brings up thunderbird instead of default mail application

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Marc Perkel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Clicking on an email link brings up Thunderbird instead of my default email
application. Thunderbird is installed but is NOT my default mail application. I
want Firefox to bring up my default email application like it is supposed to.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on an email link
2. Thunderbird comes up
3.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird Starts

Expected Results:  
Default email application (Mozilla Mail) should start.

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Probably a dupe of bug 303117 or whatever that gets duped to.

Comment 2

[Adam Guthrie]

This should be working... have you changed anything in about:config such as
network.protocol-handler.external.mailto? Or could extensions be conflicing with
this? Also, how did you verify that Outlook is your default mail client?

Comment 3

[ThomasH]

Same here, similar problem. 

Firefox 1.5 invokes Microsoft Outlook, even after I uninstalled this 
mailer from my Windows Xp. I reinstalled my Netscape to make sure that 
the Messenger is the default mailer, all to no avail.

Comment 4

[ThomasH]

I just saw the other comment and verified with about:config in 
my Firefox 1.5: I do not have entry with a string "mailto" or
even "mail" for that matter!!

I also tested my Interner Explorer: Link "Send link by e-mail"
open the correct mailer, which is the default mailer.

This seems to be a real regression in Firefox 1.5, I will 
probably revert to 1.07 until this version will stabilize.
I found so many bugs in redering already...

Comment 5

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Marc, are you still able to reproduce with Firefox 2.0.0.14? Thanks!

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.14/

Comment 6

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

No response. Since this is WFM with the latest releases and Firefox 3 RC3 Resolving -> WFM

Reporter, if you can still reproduce please either reopen this bug or file a new bug