clicking news:/nntp:/mailto: link with target="_blank" or "foobar" in html mail (also) loads a blank tab
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(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)
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(Reporter: dwolfenden, Unassigned)
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This can easily occur with reply to sender links in Yahoo mail now specifying _Blank. It is time to remove this embarrassing action of having mail content interact with the user interface.
We tell users that the HTML in emails is sandboxed from the user interface, but this is demonstrably not the case.
Comment 30•4 years ago
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This bug has been driving me insane. I have a number of contacts that include mailto links within their messages weekly. However, their program/service they use to develop these emails always attaches target="_blank" attribute to the links, including the mailto links. This then causes this bug leading to a new tab opening within Thunderbird that simply says "loading" when you click on the link within the email using Thunderbird. I figured by now this would be resolved, but this still plagues me repeatedly every week. You'd think that Thunderbird would automatically handle this by ignoring target= attributes within mailto links or something (within emails inside Thunderbird). In my head, it sounds like an easy fix. However, I have no idea what the backend of TB looks like and how hard it would be to make that happen.
Comment 31•4 years ago
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I am just starting to be bitten a lot by this as well - Thunderbird 78.9.0 x64 windows 10.
For different settings of view message body as:
- original html -> left click opens a new blank tab
- simple html -> left click opens a new blank tab
- text -> thunderbird identifies any visible email address, for which left click opens a compose window.
In all cases, right click "compose message to" opens a compose window correctly, so at least that's the easiest workaround.
In all cases TB's status window bottom left shows mailto:x@example.com
without any of the other fields in the a
element.
I have found a reproducible example in GMail using the Chrome browser as the client.
- An html formatted email containing text with an email address,
x@example.com
, but without any mailto url, is sent to gmail recipient. - recipient forwards to somebody - GMail partially rewrites the html, identifies the email address and replaces the address with something like
<a href="mailto:x@example.com" target="_blank">x@example.com</a>
- creating a message body using copy/paste of the html has the same result.
- if you compose a fresh email and include
x@example.com
then gmail identifies it and formats it as a link without the target="_blank". - Likewise if you explicitly create a mailto link in a fresh email then there is no target
Comment 32•4 years ago
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also mailtrain (https://mailtrain.org/) application generates html mails with target="_new" in buttons. You can change the link itself but no entities around it. It makes links with mailto: broken in Thunderbird.
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Comment 33•2 years ago
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This is apparently working properly now (tested on linux/daily)
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