[Bug 667835] [NEW] File links do not work in Thunderbird

[Jörg Herzinger]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When using file links ("file:///mnt/path/to/my/file.txt") tb accepts them as links and makes them clickable but when klicking this link tb just opens a dialog that asks which app you want to open the file with. The strange thing is that the filetype is not found as ".txt" but as type "file-link". This also means that adding a new mime type to mimetypes.rdf is useless since all file links are of type "file-link" and thus are opened with the same application, no matter if they are pdf, doc of jpg.
The expected behavior, which worked on karmic, is of course that the file opens with the appropriate application defined via systems mime types.

System info:

Description:	Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release:	10.04
Thunderbird 3.0.9, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 mozilla.org

so long,
    Jörg

** Affects: thunderbird (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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File links do not work in Thunderbird
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