359706 - web links put into Yahoo mail won't create a hyperlink, making the link live

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331714

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/2.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/2.0

In using Yahoo mail, whenever I cut/paste a weblink into an email with Yahoo email, it doesn't make it an active hyperlink so that my recipient can just click on it and go to the website. The recipient getting a Yahoo email from me while using Firefox will just receive the link and then they will have to cut/paste into their browser, versus just clicking on the link. When I use IE, and cut/paste a weblink into Yahoo email, it creates a hyperlink automatically. With Firefox, it doesn't and my email recipients are tired of cutting/pasting the link so I now have to use IE for my Yahoo email, and don't want to so I hope you fix this problem. Thanks so much! :) Have a wonderful day! 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open a Yahoo email "compose" window
2. take a weblink
3. cut/paste into the composing email in Yahoo email
4. you'll notice there is no way to make the link active as in a hyperlink

Actual Results:  
pasted weblink, not active


created a hyperlink, an active weblink

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

Hmm, Gmail shows it as a link.
Maybe this extension helps a bit if you rather use Yahoo mail: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/403/


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 331714 ***