437264 - about:mozilla link is not passed to browser

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 525215

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Paul Craciunoiu [:paulc]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008053008 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.14 (20080421)

In an email that contains the plain text "about:mozilla", Thunderbird highlights the text as a link, and prompts when clicking on it, but no browser page is open.
Tested on 2 different machines both MacOS 10.5.3.

Possibly happens with all "about:" links.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open (send yourself) an email containing the (plain) text "about:mozilla"
2. Click on the highlighted text "about:mozilla"
Actual Results:  
Receive prompt/warning about opening the link, but afterwards nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
After promt is received and approved ("continue"), Thunderbird should attempt to open the link.

True, "about:mozilla" is a Mozilla-specific browser page, but in that case the text should either open in a Mozilla browser (if available) or just not be highlighted at all. The way it is right now, the fact that it's a link serves more as an indicator to copy the text and paste it in the browser window that what the user expects it to serve.