587408 - & in HTML-mail not changed into & when viewing as plain text

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[olaf]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 (.NET CLR 3.0.04506.30)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2

When viewing a HTML-mail in plain-text view, an & in a link will be passed as & to browser when clicking the link.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on an e-mail with HTML-content (but no plain-text content)
2. Select "View as plain text"
3. Click on link containing an &
Actual Results:  
The link will be passed "as is" to the browser, & is not changed to &

Expected Results:  
The & should be changed to &

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Have you tried safemode (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode) ?

Comment 2

[olaf]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Have you tried safemode
> (http://support.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode) ?

Just now. The problem persists.

Comment 3

[olaf]

This bug can be closed. I checked the source of the e-mail. I did have plain-text content in which the url was wrong. Sorry for that.