304586 - Incoming mail with links in blue to URLs don't work when click on them

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Geoff]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Using FF 1.0.6 & TB 1.0 (20041206), incoming mail with links or email addresses
shown in blue, do nothing at all when I click ordouble-click on them. It shows
the complete URL at the bottom of the screen, but only way to get there is to
copy and paste.

This did NOT do that when first started using FF, but started after upgraded to
1.0.6. On the TB forum, several others have reported this, and none of the
suggested fixes do anything at all.

I brought up my old Netscape 7.1 to see what happens, and it works perfectly
when click on a link, so it has to be a problem with FF and/or TB. Although
never use it, even tried IE and that's OK too. FF definitely is my default browser.

Everything else works just fine!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Read any email with an embedded link in the message area in blue.
2. Click on the link to go to the website
3. Nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Nada, nothing :(

Expected Results:  
Gone to the URL of the link.

Comment 1

[Ben Wagner]

I've had a similar problem. Mine open a window in IE then do nought. using
thunderbird version 1.0.6 (20050716)don't no how change my default browser. If
this does get fixed can you e-mail me on [e-mail] cause i'd like to know!

many many thanks

ben

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

close but not quite correct.

WORKSFORME is the proper closure.
see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status