Comment 6 for bug 234349

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008050509 Firefox/3.0b5

I'm getting many emails with links to pdf files (such as "http://domain.com/document.pdf").

thunderbird open the default browser when *all* urls are clicked, regardless of the actual filetype. when the linked file type is not text/html, opening the browser is unnecessary.

This happens also with links to images, and all other filestypes that are located on the web.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. send yourself a message with a link to a pdf file in the body (such as http://domain.com/doc/pdf).
2. get the message from your mail server.
3. click on the link from the thunderbird's message pane.

Actual Results:
thunderbird opens firefox with the link location. firefox then asks me to open/save the pdf file.

Expected Results:
when clicking on the link, thunderbird should know this is pdf file and open the default application for pdf viewing itself.

it may be the correct response, but a "smarter" Thunderbird would just download the pdf / image file (to a temporary location?) and open the appropriate program, without involving any other, unneeded application.