User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5 Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.5 2005110712 I don't know if TB has an embedded browser with all functionalities ... But it should be a good thing if, for example with a right click, we have the ability to open the link into the mail view window instead of the defaut browser. the goal? I've subscribe to some RSS feed of flickr ( http://www.flickr.com ) --> some photos are publics, some photos are not public, so i need to be logged to see the photo ... Flickr has the hability to "remember me", so, each time i go to flickr with Firefox, i don't have to log ... But, when i receive a rss html post from flickr, i'm not logged ... and if i click to "login" i go directly to firefox ... so thunderbird has not the possibility to go to the login page and be "remember" for the next post i will receive ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:

You could use SeaMonkey. ;-)

(In reply to comment #1) > You could use SeaMonkey. ;-) > :-) ... yes ... but no :-) but, you're right ... i guess SeaMonkey fix this problem by sharing the cookies between browser and mailer ... maybe it can be a solution ... But i think that open the link inside TB can be a quicker and easier solution (for example if FF is not the default browser or is not present on the pc)

Confirming rfe. Would be especially useful for multi-page forums and articles. And vital for feeds that use form-based login. Full browsing probably isn't what we want, but being able to follow links, submit a form, and maybe back-forward would help a lot.

Submitting a form from a message or RSS item is a fairly difficult prospect, and the proposed solution (bug 242974 comment 59) will cause a browser window to open with the response to the submitted form. Generally, I don't like the idea of the message pane being turned into a browser pane. It breaks the expected association of having a message/RSS item selected in the thread pane and that message's content displayed in the message pane. I would not want to see the mail program encumbered with, for instance, browse-history buttons, which would be the obvious next request to pop up if browsing were supported (as already happened in comment 3). In the Flickr case, rather than click the Log In button in the message, what happens when you click the 'Website' header for the RSS item? I'd expect this to open the same item into the browser, taking advantage of the cookies if they're available. Recommend WONTFIX.

(In reply to comment #4) > Submitting a form from a message or RSS item is a fairly difficult prospect, > and the proposed solution (bug 242974 comment 59) will cause a browser window > to open with the response to the submitted form. I suppose this would also be one way of fixing bug 242974. Handling the post reply internally would seem simpler than the approaches suggested in that bug...

(In reply to comment #4) > In the Flickr case, rather than click the Log In button in the message, what > happens when you click the 'Website' header for the RSS item? I'd expect this > to open the same item into the browser, taking advantage of the cookies if > they're available. > > Recommend WONTFIX. > of course, it works :-) but it seems you don't use flickr RSS ... In flickr, you can set authorisations on phots: private/friends/family/everyone You can also add some photos to one of the thousands of existing groups. You have to subscribe to a group, and thus, if you choose to add a private photo to a group, all subscribers to the group have the authorisation to see the photo. Now, each group has a RSS feed ... So, i receive for my favorite groups one post for each photo added to the group i check the rss. In the morning, i have for example 200 new post for one of my favourites groups and i check quickly each post to see the photos ... 80%-90% of these photos are public ... but some are private and only accessible to the subscribers of the group ... For each of these photos, i have to click on the direct link of the post to watch it inside Firefox ... OK, it is working, but i have to do that for 10% of 200 photos --> waste of time to open each of these photos in ff ... in TB, it is so easy to see all post just by press the delete or the down arrow key ... So, this is why i wanted a way to let TB be "logged" by viewing RSS feeds of Flickr

Like others here, I would also find this useful for authentication purposes. I've been having a lot of trouble making my cookies copied from Firefox 'stick'. I'd also like to reiterate how awkward it is to browse multi-page RSS feeds with Thunderbird (as opposed to other RSS aggregators). Take for instance Gamasutra's Features <http://feeds.feedburner.com/GamasutraFeatureArticles> or The Escapist <http://www.escapistmagazine.com/rss.xml>. With Thunderbird, you're forced to read the first page in Thunderbird, then read the next few pages in Firefox. Plus, as I understand it, TB2.0 *has* browse-history buttons now, so the 'obvious next request' is already satisfied.

(In reply to comment #7) > Plus, as I understand it, TB2.0 *has* browse-history buttons now, so the > 'obvious next request' is already satisfied. heh, those are message history back and forward buttons :)

(In reply to comment #8) > heh, those are message history back and forward buttons :) Only because we can't currently browse >:) It would be pretty intuitive to extend the message history buttons to serve both purposes. Message history would really just a subset of browse history.

(In reply to comment #9) > Only because we can't currently browse >:) There is an extension that allows you to do this called ThunderBrowse. It's supposed to allow you to surf webpages in Thunderbird. Might want to check it out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5030

Now that ThunderBrowse can handle things like POST requests (as of TB3.0) this enhancement is less important.

Wow, I managed a duplicate of a 12yo bug, and on top of that, nobody commented on this since 8 years ago?! ThunderBrowse is clearly outdated, it is no longer a solution. Anyone who reads feeds inside Thunderbird has this problem, I am very surprised so few comments were made on this bug. This is IMHO a really important bug for news feeds, since a lot of websites providing feeds are really lazy and simply send a link to their multi-page web article (instead of aggregating the article into a single html document). We can keep this simple: Add a "Open in this TAB" and "Open in new TAB" choices when right-clicking URLs. I ought to be fairly easy to add to TB. Apparently the WebApp-Tabs AddOn might be able to assist, I will test this later and report back. Best Regards,

Forget WebApp-Tabs; it doesn't do what we need.