User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060130 SeaMonkey/1.0 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 SeaMonkey doesn't seem to handle properly links pointing to a newsgroup from a web page. It seems to think a newsgroup is a news server. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Go to any page that has a link that points to a newsgroup As an example: http://www.mozilla.org/support/#newsgroups 2. Click on the link pointing to a newsgroup with the left button of your mouse 3. Confirm on the dialogue box 4. Close and reopen Mail/News client and look at the news servers list. Actual Results: Let's consider this part of the HTML source of the page I indicated as an example: <li><a href="news://alt.fan.mozilla/">alt.fan.mozilla</a></li> When I display it with SeaMonkey (SM) browser and I right click and copy link location, the content of the clipboard is news://alt.fan.mozilla/ ( and not news:alt.fan.mozilla ) That makes SM think that it's a news server, not a newsgroup. When I left click on the link, I get the dialogue box "do you want to subscribe to alt.fan.mozilla", and if I click on OK the browser displays in its adress bar news://news:119/alt.fan.mozilla and I get the adress not found page load error message. After having closed and reopened Mail/News, I get the account wizard and a new news server displayed on the left side of the window. If I click on the back button on the browser and try to subscribe to another newsgroup, this latter newsgroup is added to the ghost server's newsgroups. Expected Results: The link should cause a subscription to the newsgroup on the current news server available, and not cause a new server appearance. Also happens on Mac OS X. Not tested with Linux and other operating systems.

Please consider the following page too: http://slrn.sourceforge.net/links.html#sect_docs In this page, you have <li><a href="news:news.software.readers">news.software.readers</a> The behaviour of SM is exactly the same as with the links the page I mentioned above ( http://www.mozilla.org/support/#newsgroups ), I mean it handles this link as if it was news://news.software.readers and not news:news.software.readers . Clicking on news://news.mozilla.org/mozilla.support.mozilla-suite makes me correctly subscribe to the group, but adds also a "ghost" server which name is just "news" . I'm a bit lost, and sorry for the confused information. I hope this will help somehow.

See bug 16343 and bug 64142.

Sorry to mark this bug a DUP of a newer bug that I filed, however we've got more debugging information there, which will hopefully lead to a fix at some point (* crosses fingers). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 327885 ***