607288 - Mail link opens infinite number of tabs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 510009

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Jorge R]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101025 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101025 Firefox/4.0b8pre

When you click on a mail's link instead of openning your mail inbox, minifield starts to open tabs and does not stop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on a mail link (mailto:)
Actual Results:  
The browser starts openning tabs and does not stop.

Expected Results:  
It should open your mail inbox.

In options you have to use Minifield to open mailto links, Gmail or others have not been checked.

Comment 1

[Jorge R]

It only happens when mailto links are opened with the browser instead of other app or a email webapage.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Jorge, does this happen when started in safe mode with newer firefox build?

Comment 3

[Jorge R]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Jorge, does this happen when started in safe mode with newer firefox build?

This remains happening in safe mode in build 2011-02-22. The only requirement is having mailto links configure to open with Firefox app, instead Gmail or other browser... There is a mailto link in this page: http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/mailto.htm
I think we should avoid this problem changing the preference automatically to "ask always".

Comment 4

[Jorge R]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Jorge, does this happen when started in safe mode with newer firefox build?
> 
> This remains happening in safe mode in build 2011-02-22. The only requirement
> is having mailto links configure to open with Firefox app, instead Gmail or
> other browser... There is a mailto link in this page:
> http://www.outfront.net/tutorials_02/adv_tech/mailto.htm
> I think we should avoid this problem changing the preference automatically to
> "ask always".

Ohh, user name in commments is a mailto link too.

Comment 5

[Christophe Jacquet]

Looks like a duplicate of bug #510009.