ftp:// URL interpretation of Thunderbird

Gustavo Seabra gustavo.seabra at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 14:42:01 UTC 2005


On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:49:42 +0200, Mostafa Z. Afgani
<mostafa.afgani at world.iu-bremen.de> wrote:
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> Dear All,
> 
> A while back I filed a bug report with mozilla.org regarding the
> interpretation of URLs like
> 
> ftp://user@domain.com
> 
> It appears that under _linux_ the url is interpreted as
> 
> mailto:ftp://user@domain.com
> 
> So, instead of opening a browser, it opens a compose window addressed to
> "ftp://user@domain.com". Under WinXP clinking on the link opens a
> browser as expected. The bug is filed under:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278254
> 
> Could someone else please verify this and file comments?
> 
> Thanks,
> - -M

I just posted a reply in bugzilla, it works fine for me.
> rpm -q firefox
firefox-1.0.2-1.3.1
FC3.

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