[Bug 106582] Re: above

[Dak]

hi.

sorry, but my ubuntu install is currently playing silly-buggers, and has
no internet access. I haven't been able to get any updates recently, so
the answre's 'yes', but not neccesarily 'cos it's still a problem.

a couple of points tho:

like i said, i tested it in safe-mode, with all the extentions disabled,
so unless other people can't replicate it it's probably an extention-
indipendant problem.

I also suspect (but cannot test, as i can't download any packages) that
opera/konquerer/etc will also behave similarly; i.e., it's not a mozilla
problem, but a problem with how the OS's mailhandler and the web-
browser's mailhandler interact.

id guess that the OS's mailhandler should just keep track of how many
times it's recieved the same mailto: from a program recently, and refuse
to play ping-pong with it after the third bounce.

e.g.:

program passes mailto: to OS-mailhandler
OS-mailhandler passes mailto: to program
program passes mailto: back to OS-mailhandler
OS-mailhandler passes mailto: back to program
program passes mailto: back to OS-mailhandler again
OS-mailhandler passes mailto: back to program again
program passes mailto: back to OS-mailhandler yet again
OS-mailhandler gives up, and displays an error message.

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Firefox DOS (kind of) through bad 'preferred applications' custom mail reader command
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