Closed Bug 386215 Opened 17 years ago Closed 17 years ago

File links such as File://C:\ don't work.

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84128

People

(Reporter: bmadden, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.4 (20070604)

Hi,

If you receive an e-mail that has a file link like File://C:\ and you use Outlook or IE, you can double click and go to that directory in Microsoft Windows XP.

This behavior doesn't work in either Firefox 2.0 or Thunderbird 2.0. I need it a lot actually.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
nothing opens

Expected Results:  
nothing happens

should have opened a Windows explorer window and cd: to the directory specified.
see <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Links_to_local_pages_do_not_work> why this type of links don't work (for security reasons), and a workaround
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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