Closed Bug 299487 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

<img src="mailto:foo@bar.org"> opens email

Categories

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
DOM: HTML Parser
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181860

People

(Reporter: hello, Unassigned)

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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686; de) Opera 8.01
Build Identifier: 

If you use mailto with a email within a image source, all gecko browsers open a 
new email within the configurated email programm. If this is noly one such img, 
no problem, but if there are 1000 on one page your computer will hang and you 
could loose a lot of data.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a email program in your gecko browser.
2. Write a page with this sourcecode: <img src="foo@bar.org">
3. Show this page in your gekco browser.

Actual Results:  
It opens a new email window in your email programm.

Expected Results:  
Not interprate this mailto: link.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181860 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Group: security
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