Closed Bug 328604 Opened 19 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Internet Browser sent invalid URI's

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 381922

People

(Reporter: bolandj, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1) Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 (20051201) Clicking on any link in an email message in Thunderbird 1.5 (20051201) results in a web browser being opened with an invalid URL. For example, in an email message the link "www.parks.wa.gov" is presented, but clicking on the link results in the web browser being sent to "http://\\www.parks.wa.gov",,0,0,,,,/" in firefox, or "http://%20www.parks.wa.gov",,0,0,,,,/" in Internet Explorer. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Click on any link in an email message. 2. 3. Actual Results: "Problem loading page" error in Firefox, "404" in IE.
something must be intercepting the uri's and messing them up. Do you have any virus checkers, or spy-ware on your system?
(In reply to comment #1) > something must be intercepting the uri's and messing them up. Do you have any > virus checkers, or spy-ware on your system? > It is not actually my computer, this is happening on the system of one of my friends. They asked me to look at it as I work for the computing department at my university. Anyway, I went in a whole suite of tools and found no spyware, adware, viruses, etc. on the system.
My aunt had this same problem using Thunderbird 1.5.0.2. The problem happened both when using Firefox or IE as the default web browser. I disabled the firewall (Windows XP Home firewall) and the virus scanner (Trend Micro) but that didn't help. Uninstalling and reinstalling Thunderbird didn't help, even after completely removing the Thunderbird folder from Program Files. I also renamed the profile folder so it would create a new, clean profile but that didn't help either. I finally fixed it but uninstalling Thunderbird, removing the Thunderbird folder from Program Files, manually removing all the Thunderbird references from the registry, and then reinstalling Thunderbird. After that clicking URLs in the mail worked fine. I suspect the problem was the registry since I tried the other stuff individually without success. There were a lot of Thunderbird references in the registry from older versions but there wasn't anything that stood out as being an obvious problem.
QA Contact: front-end
More discussion in bug 381922 suggesting a compatibility setting in the Windows properties of thunderbird.exe is to blame. Resolving this bug as duplicate as the other one has progressed further.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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