Thunderbird doesn't open some links
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Mozilla PPA Bugs |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Thunderbird 5.0 on Ubuntu 11.04.
Some links in e-mails don't work, i.e. nothing happens when they're clicked. When Thunderbird is started from a terminal, the following error is generated on clicking an affected link (German localization):
** (thunderbird-
However, this only happens for some links. Most links open normally in Firefox (my default browser) and don't generate the error.
Examples for affected links are:
http://
http://
Maybe the problem is caused by the "%" characters?
The problem doesn't occur with Thunderbird 5.0 on Windows XP - the same links work fine there.