When I click on an email address on a webpage, the browser(Nightly) goes on opening tabs indefinitely with the url of that mail address.
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(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)
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(Reporter: shrutijoshi98, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0
Steps to reproduce:
Click on the mail address displayed on a website, or click on any description that links to a mail address.
Actual results:
The browser goes on opening new tabs with the url being that address indefinitely. This only stops when the browser is restarted by forcing shutdown.
Expected results:
It should have copied the mail address or displayed a prompt to open a relevant mailing app.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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- Paste
about:preferences#generalinto the address bar. - Scroll down to the Applications category.
- What does
mailtohave set as its action?
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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Probably a dupe of bug 167320?
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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Either that or bug 218257 hence comment 1.
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Comment 4•6 years ago
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Hi, the problem occurs when mailto is set to "Use Firefox Nightly (default)". The default setting shouldn't be set to an infinite tab opening. Thanks.
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Comment 5•6 years ago
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(In reply to shrutijoshi98@gmail.com from comment #4)
Hi, the problem occurs when mailto is set to "Use Firefox Nightly (default)". The default setting shouldn't be set to an infinite tab opening. Thanks.
It's not; the default setting is to ask the OS. You've set Nightly to open mailto: links by default in Windows.
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Comment 6•6 years ago
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(In reply to :Gijs (he/him) from comment #5)
It's not; the default setting is to ask the OS. You've set Nightly to open mailto: links by default in Windows.
Note that we did this for you for some time when you installed nightly, so that might explain it; that change was backed out in bug 675428 because of exactly this issue.
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