303639 - the link is dead, click, no action

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[rfinley1]

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

All the links in the body are dead.  I click and nothing happen. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.rceive an email
2.click on any link
3.

Actual Results:  
No response

Expected Results:  
Taken me to the site

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Which version of Thunderbird is this bug filed against?

Have you verified that Windows is configured with a default browser?  What 
happens if, in the Start|Run command field, you enter a link such as 
 <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Setting_Your_Default_Browser>  ?
If nothing happens here, the problem is with your system configuration.

Do mailto: links work?

xref bug 272519

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

From reporter via email:
> Version 1.0.6
> I have have checked and find Firefox is my default browser.  When I change 
> default browsers the links still do not work.
> When I email the message with the links to myself and open it in Netscape mail 
> the links work.
> A link to an email address does work.
> I do not understand the instruction to insert the link in the start run field.
> Is that the start run on the desk top? 

Richard Finley: please do not respond to questions in a bug by email.  I am not 
your technical support contact.

In response to the last question: Yes, Start|Run on the desk top.

Incidentally: the address on the email you sent to me is invalid, my attempt at 
a reply bounced.

Comment 3

[Drew Vogel]

Attachment: An email newsletter with a mailto: link that Thunderbird 1.5rc1 will not open.

This email has many links of the form mailto:[e-mail]?Subject=... that Thunderbird 1.5rc1 fails to open a compose window for when you click on them. I have not tried this in other versions.

Comment 4

[Drew Vogel]

Added an example email that exhibits this behavior.

Comment 5

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

I'm seeing this too, in:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Thunderbird/1.5" - Build ID: 2005120110
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051201 Firefox/1.5" - Build ID:2005120103

which are set as default mailer and default browser respectively. Clicking a link in an email in TB does nothing.

Workaround: With "Launchy" extension, click right on link then "Launchy -> Open Link in Firefox" opens it.

See also Unix bug 305598

Comment 6

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

Clicking links in Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 or the latest Shredder nightlies WFM. Both on WinXP and Mac Leopard.