612899 - Inserting link in email has stopped working.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[peggy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/534.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/7.0.517.44 Safari/534.7
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 3.1.6

I cannot get the link to work in the body of the email. It seems to act more like an anchor than a link. It doesn't create a hyperlink to a web address.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Click on "Link" in compose.
2.Fill in the webpage information and click OK.
3.Nothing happens.
Actual Results:  
None. Nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
Hyperlink on written text with an underline showing it is hyperlinked.

Comment 1

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

This works for me. Did you include http:// in the link location? If not, TB indeed acts more like it is an anchor, although that only happens in the compose window, not in the actual sent message...

Comment 2

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

WFM too on TB 3.3a2!

peggy, please, do you can answer to comment #1?

Comment 3

[peggy]

I checked this out and it indeed is the situation. I'm not used to having to put the http:// in front of the website name on other email software. Thanks for the info.

(In reply to comment #1)
> This works for me. Did you include http:// in the link location? If not, TB
> indeed acts more like it is an anchor, although that only happens in the
> compose window, not in the actual sent message...

Comment 4

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

-> WFM. Fixed is used for bugs with known patches.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#resolution

Thanks for your feedback