86180 - Middle-mouse-paste of email address should open new message

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 51206

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Peter Davis]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre21 i686; en-US; rv:0.9.1+)
Gecko/20010613
BuildID:    2001061308

When you select a normal URL and middle click (ie., middle click on selected
text rather than a link), it sends the selection to the address bar and opens
that page.  But if you select an email address ([e-mail]) and middle
click, the url http://[e-mail]/ will be opened.  There should be some kind
of detection to see if the selected text appears to be an email address, and if
so, open a new message in mail/news to that address instead of sending it to the
address bar.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a web page that has an email address (not a link) somewhere on the page
2. Select it by click-dragging the mouse
3. Middle click

Actual Results:  The email address will be sent to the address bar.

Expected Results:  A new message to the selected address should be opened.

Comment 1

[basic]

real testcase    [e-mail]

Comment 2

[basic]

arggg... Bugzilla is toooo smart! It adds a mailto: in front of anything that
looks like a email address. will make an attachment with full instruction

Comment 3

[basic]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem here is we just call LoadURI on the thing pasted into the browser
window.  Perhaps we should be a little smarter.

See also bug 85677.

Resummarizing to make it clearer what the bug is.

Comment 5

[Kathleen :Brade]

-->XPApps since this isn't really a selection issue

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 51206 ***

Comment 7

[basic]

verified