Closed Bug 476916 Opened 16 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Thunderbird ignores user preferences when opening an URL link inside an email

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: henri.dugenou, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1b2) Gecko/20081201 Firefox/3.1b2 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1 When clicking on a URL inside an email, Thunderbird ALWAYS open the web browser defines by the system User preferences defined in configuration are ignored Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.configure the preferred web browser for the profile 1a Edit/preferences General / configuration editor 1b if necessary append the item network.protocol-handler.app.http for instance define the string as /opt/kde3/bin/konqueror 2. in an email with an URL link of the form http://... clik on the URL link 3. 'the' web browser opens with this URL Actual Results: It is ALWAYS the default web browser defined in the system which is opened, (here in my case Firefox) Expected Results: with the values defined above, Konqueror should open with the URL link it is not exactly the same bug than 468986 I think it is a regression
See Bug 414493 I'm not sure if that pref ever worked for windows. But the behavior of using anything other than the default browser is not "built in" via a UI Firefox has this in Tools>>Options>>Applications TB has not implemented this.
This feature worked well with thunderbird 2 (under linux) The menu disposition is not the same beetwen Linux and Windows For Windows the way to edit configuration is slightly different 1a. in TB for windows: Tools>>Options Advanced>>Configuration editor (I don't know if it was working with windows)
I guess the pref never applied to windows. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.protocol-handler.app.(protocol) Bug 414493 does not apply here, although it would be nice to be able to right context click on a link and select something other than the default browser in windows as well as Mac or linux. cc Magnus for some linux help
rb: you didn't get the prompt which application to use, like bug 468986? I'm not sure the network.protocol-handler prefs are supposed to work (that way) anymore...
NO I didn't get any prompt which application to use, like bug 468986 with TB2 linux the application which name is given in network.protocol-handler prefs is started with TB3 linux the default browser is started
Bug 443960 also reports similar problem on Linux relates to network.protocol-handler.app.http. (In reply to comment #3) > I guess the pref never applied to windows. > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.protocol-handler.app.(protocol) Tb is not listed in "Has an effect in" section of the KB article. Bug 272519 Comment #5(on 2004-12-16) says; (Bug 272519 is request for "default browser support by Tb" on Windows-Me). > *nix installations do not have a "default browser" so the system has nothing to refer to when the http link is being processed. It seems to be reason why network.protocol-handler.app.http was supported by Tb on Linux. And, Bug 216252 Comment #71(on 2007-08-09) says network.protocol-handler.xxx are the solution.
Bug 443960, Bug 468986, and this bug(Bug 476916) commonly report "worked as expected with Fx2, but doesn't work as expected with Fx3". Similar issue sounds to be involved in all three bugs, but reported phenomena are different. Depends on distro? Depends on Window Manager? Depends on Tb's settings(network.protocol-handler.xxx etc.)? Depends on application associated to ".html" or ".htm"?
Does this still happen to formerly affected users?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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