On 11/02/2016 12:13 AM, WaltS48 wrote:
Daniel wrote:
On 9/02/2016 12:23 PM, »Q« wrote:
In <news:c6gdndb69zedjyxlnz2dnuu7-rmdn...@mozilla.org>,
"David E. Ross" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
Windows 7 Ultimate SP 1 (x64)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101
Thunderbird/38.5.1
When I select a link to a newsgroup on a Web page, it does not work
even though the link is valid per RFC 5538. I submitted bug #601618
about this more than five years ago. That bug was just now closed as
WontFix although this is a true software error and not a request for
enhancement.
See <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601618>.
It was closed because it's "not a tier one product issue", which seems
to be the case. Both news:// and nntp:// links clicked in Firefox open
the handlers for those protocols; I just checked by clicking the links
in your bug report.
Maybe it needs to be re-opened and reclassified -- ISTM it's not a
"Core, Networking" issue.
When I read this post yesterday, in my Win7 SeaMonkey, I went to
bugzilla and clicked the links for news:// and nntp:// ..... and nothing
happen!! :-(
Tonight, when I started up my Win7 SeaMonkey, I had two new accounts on
my Mail and News screen!! :-(
So Bug still applicable .... at least for SM.
In the report David states he has Thunderbird installed.
When I click the news:// link in the bug report using Firefox, I get the
Launch Application dialog box, that allows me to chose an application I
want news to open with. Thunderbird is already selected for me, or I
could chose another application.
Using a test profile with Thunderbird 38.5.1, I clicked OK, then
restarted Thunderbird and mozilla.support.thunderbird was there at the
account level, not as a newsgroup. Not good.
With that Thunderbird still open, I then clicked the nntp:// link and
got a dialog box from Thunderbird asking me to Confirm "Would you like
to subscribe to mozilla.support.seamonkey. I clicked OK, restarted
Thunderbird again with the test profile. This time I had a
news.mozilla.org account with the mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup
installed.
Once the News Account was created, when I go to this page
<https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/forums/#end-user-support> in
Firefox and select any newsgroup I get the Launch Application dialog
box, but clicking OK subscribes me to the newsgroup.
I did the same with SeaMonkey and almost had the same results.
Clicking the news:// link created a mozilla.support.thunderbird account.
Clicking the nntp:// link created a news.mozilla.org account, with a
subscription to the mozilla.support.seamonkey newsgroup.
Only this time the SeaMonkey Account Wizard dialog box opened, asking me
to fill in my account information for the mozilla.support.thunderbird
account.
Canceling the account creation brought up the Download Headers dialog
box for the SeaMonkey newsgroup. Headers downloaded normally.
Going to the forums site linked to above, clicking a newsgroup link,
SeaMonkey asked if I wanted to subscribe and clicking OK subscribed me
to the newsgroup.
Anyway, whether it is working or not, I think the fact that SeaMonkey
and Thunderbird are not Tier 1 products is the deciding factor.
In Mozilla's eyes they are not.
and, it would seem, the hard working SM Devs have other things to keep
them busy! ;-(
--
Daniel
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.39 Build identifier: 20151028234211
or
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.38 Build identifier: 20150903203501
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