470529 - Send Link fails (Fx 3.0.5/Win XP)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Raymie Humbert]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: http://www.mozilla.com/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0.5&os=win&lang=en-US

My family's computer (which uses Windows XP; I'm using my Mac to send the bug) has a problem in which Send Link will not open a Compose window in T-bird. It's not a T-bird problem (we use Thunderbird 3.0b1), but rather a Firefox problem. It works on the equivalent Mac build with the client being Mail.app 3.5 (930.3).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to any web page.
2. Click Send Link.
3. (Thunderbird) won't launch.
Actual Results:  
No dialog is triggered; the data heads off to the middle of nowhere.

Expected Results:  
A new Compose window should open with the subject being the title of the page and the body featuring a URL linking to the page.

This issue also appeared in 3.0.4, so any changes between 3.0.4 and 3.0.5 did not affect this bug.

Comment 1

[Arthur Wiebe]

Hey raymie,

Please try the directions listed here for setting the default mail program on Windows XP:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_mail_client#Windows

Then report back here.

Thanks.

Comment 2

[Raymie Humbert]

That did the trick. Thanks!

Raymie

Comment 3

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

OK, great, but this is WORKSFORME.