Comment 50 for bug 411358

I don't understand why anybody would care about svn+ssh URLs in the email. The whole point of recognizing a URL so the user can click on it to go to that URL, even if the sender DID NOT designate it as a clickable link in the original message.

It already does not work for svn+ssh URLs, but I found zero bug reports about the svn+ssh URL not being clickable. There are at least 5 other duplicate reports of this bug.

A fix that prevents the popup error and yet does not recognize svn+ssh is a net improvement in the user experience. It does not create any new bugs.

The fix is quite obviously something like: if (strchr(x,'+')) return false;

That is, when using GConf for the lookup, first assume a string with '+' in it was not found. Obviously, there would be a comment above it that contains a paragraph explaining the problem and why this is the solution. Someone who already has a thunderbird development environment and understands how this aspect works could implement this fix trivially.

Unfortunately, much modern open source software is so complicated that even a highly proficient programmer can't just pick it up and make a trivial fix like this. Unless I can find time for several days of work to fixing this bug (just to get a thunderbird development environment working), I am just a user who has the option of living with buggy software or using something else.

So: Is anybody involved in this discussion able to make this fix and test it?