[Dapper] Firefox mailto launchs full Thunderbird instance

[Raymond Lillard]

I'm new to Ubuntu.  In testing out Dapper Flight 3, I noticed 
that right clicking on a web-page in Firefox and selecting  
"Send Link" launches a new full instance of my mail-user-agent 
and the compose window.  On every OS (distro) I have used this 
only launches the Thunderbird compose window.

I looked at Ubuntu's bugzilla and found Bug #12097 which is 
53 weeks old.  Does this mean this issue is never going to 
be fixed?

I realize this is not a crippling defect, but it seems rather 
simple to fix.  Fifty-three weeks seems like a very long time 
for this.

Should I just fix this myself and forget about it?

Regards,
Ray