333934 - Click "mailto" in browser can not open thunderbird compose window

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[vicky.sun]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060410 Firefox/2.0a1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060410 Firefox/2.0a1

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20060410 Firefox/2.0a1

When thunderbird is running,click any "mailto:xxxxx" in firefox,thunderbird no response,then click again,it popup "Close Thunderbird" : Thunderbird is already running,but is  not responding. To open a new window,you must first close the existing Thunderbird process,or restart your system.
Close "Close Thunderbird" window, thunderbird compose window also can not be opened.

This bug can only be reproduced on Sun sparc machine.

If thunderbird is not running, click "mailto:xxxx" in firefox, it can popup compose window.i.e. thunderbird work well.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch firefox and thunderbird.
2.Load any webpage including "mailto:xxxxx",and click it.

Actual Results:  
Thunderbird no response.
And if click "mailto:xxxxx"again,it will popup "Close Thunderbird" window. The detail of the window can refer to above.

Expected Results:  
Popup thunderbird compose window and the mail address selected display in "To" item.

Comment 1

[emily chen]

Hi Vicky, this bug work for me on Gecko/2007012914 Firefox/2.0.0.1 on Solaris neveda_57. feel free to reopen if you can reproduce this bug with a latest release build.

Alfred, would you please help me close this bug, Thanks

Comment 2

[Alfred Peng]

This issue may be caused by that Firefox wasn't the default browser for Solaris Nevada at that time. It's the default one now. And it works for me too with Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061009 Firefox/2.0 and version 2 beta 2 (20070123).

Comment 3

[Alfred Peng]

=> WFM as the above two comments.