514457 - Drag and drop of a link from Thurderbird to Firefox appends the link text to URL

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 502171

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[palswim]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.23 (20090812)

In a Thunderbird Message Reader window, instead of clicking directly on a link, I drag the link to a Firefox window.  But, where (I believe) this link would open the URL, now Firefox receives the link as a concatenated string of the link URL and the link text (in a plain-text message, it becomes the URL concatenated to itself).  So, dragging a link <a href="http://www.google.com/">Google</a> would make Firefox attempt to navigate to "http://www.google.com/Google" and dragging a plain-text URL "http://www.google.com/" would make "http://www.google.com/http://www.google.com/".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a message with a link (or plain text with a URL)
2. Drag and drop the link from Thunderbird to a Firefox browser window or URL bar

Actual Results:  
Firefox attempts to navigate to the link's URL + text.

Expected Results:  
Firefox would navigate to just the URL of the link.

I have only had this problem with Thunderbird + Firefox.  Dragging a link to Internet Explorer seems to work fine, but dragging a link from somewhere else to Firefox also seems fine.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

This is WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090903 Shredder/3.0b4pre. Wayne can you verify on XP ?

Comment 2

[WADA:World Anti-bad-Duping Agency]

DUP of 502171?

Comment 3

[palswim]

Looks like it; sorry about that!