476806 - e-mail links not handled correctly in win 7 beta (build 7000)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Paul]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5

Under windows 7 clicking an e-mail link in Firefox brings up a "choose default mail handler" dialog box despite thunderbird being the default mail handler.
Choosing Thunderbird as a default brings up another dialog box telling me that this application (thunderbird) has not installed correctly and does not put the link through.

Pointing the first "choose mail handler" dialog box at thunderbird.exe in the install directory seems to bring it right and bring up a new mail window with all details filled in correctly

Thunderbird seems to work fine except for this error with being the default mail handler.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.click e-mail link on webpage
2.dialog box pops up telling me default mail client is not installed properly
3.click ok
Actual Results:  
2.dialog box pops up telling me default mail client is not installed properly

Expected Results:  
pop up new e-mail window in thunderbird client.

setting the default mail handler in firefox to thunderbird.exe in the thunderbird directory makes everything work as it should.

Windows 7 is not detecting that thunderbird is installed correctly and therefore wont identify it as the default mail handler and pass mail-to links through to it.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

What version of thunderbrid where you using ? probably an something that can be fixed at install time.

Comment 2

[Paul]

Looks like I may have installed from 2.0.0.14.
I know I used the default install.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Well, tried either of
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-central/
http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/

... may well be a win7 beta bug though.

Comment 4

[Paul]

Have not reinstalled from either of those or 2.0.19.
Have reported to microsoft as a possible win 7 beta bug too.
guess we really need more people with the same problem before we can verify it.

Comment 5

[Rain [:rain1] (inactive)]

Do you still see this with the Windows 7 RC and
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.19
- Thunderbird 3 beta 2?

I can't reproduce this on the RC and the latest nightly.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

jim, do you see this?

Comment 7

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESO INCO per lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.