603671 - cannot open nntp message hyperlink when link clicked

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 226890

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Mike Lykov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b6) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100915 Thunderbird/3.1.4

This is about reading messages on an NNTP news server.

Somebody may insert a message link in an article like 
news:<message-id here>

real examples:
news:1xw9syfxxvcpc.wqcjqykgz4af$[e-mail]
news:i915aj$9je$[e-mail]

In Knode (for example) when i click this link it opens a linked article in a separate window. I can read that article and close it.
In thunderbird, when i click a link like this .. nothing happens.

Thunderbird 3 may open news articles in tabs. I suggest to open clicked links in other tabs.

I use public server news.kraft-s.ru and group kraft.test for testing. All links usually a local for server.






Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. take message-id from header of any nntp article.
2. create article with news: link via writing news:messahe-id in article body.  
3. post this article, load and view it, and try to click the link. 
Actual Results:  
nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
open a linked messahe in a separate tab, like as in other nntp readers (like Knode).