Firefox and embedded email addresses

[r...@lewpitcherisgay.com]

Has anyone had the problem with firefox where you click on an
embedded email address and you suddenly get an unending opening of
tabs?

We're talking hundreds of tabs.

Does anyone know what that's about? Or would you rather waste time
discussing justlinux.ca?

cordially, as always,

rm

[Robby Workman]

On 2009-11-07, r...@LewPitcherIsGay.com <r...@LewPitcherIsGay.com> wrote:
> Has anyone had the problem with firefox where you click on an
> embedded email address and you suddenly get an unending opening of
> tabs?
>
> We're talking hundreds of tabs.

I've never seen that, and I wouldn't even expect that from clicking
a mailto link - that makes no sense. Are you sure it's a real mailto
link and not something else, e.g. something like this:
<a href="http:/somebadplace.local">ma...@domain.local</a>

-RW

[r...@lewpitcherisgay.com]

Robby Workman <newsg...@rlworkman.net> trolled:

We have found this numerous times on seemingly innocent and legit
web-sites. But we can't think of any offhand, even though it
happened yesterday.

We shall look for the site.

cordially, as always,

rm

[r...@lewpitcherisgay.com]

r...@lewpitcherisgay.com trolled:

Following ourself up, we somehow had the mailto application under
the firefox preferences set to firefox. This caused a recursive
call to firefox to handle mailto:

Wow. We must have been smoking some of Dan's shit there....

You can, however, set the firefox mailto: handler to Gmail.com which
is probably what we were trying to do. Setting it to gmail.com
acesses mailto: through the gmail web mail programme.

Of course, you can also set it to thunderbird, if you want. Some of
you will try to funnel it through a purely text-based newsreader.
Some of you like to reinvent the wheel everytime you boot.

cordially, as always,

rm

[Dan C]

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:42:29 +0000, rm driveled:

> Following ourself up, we somehow had the mailto application under the
> firefox preferences set to firefox. This caused a recursive call to
> firefox to handle mailto:

Hahaha. Stupid n00b.

No wonder you can't remember things like renewing a domain lease.

Put the crack pipe down, loser.

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[r...@lewpitcherstealsdomains.com]

Dan C <youmust...@lan.invalid> trolled:

[deletia]

Lew Pitcher watched an old lady drop one hundred dollars, whereupon
he seized it, waved it in the old lady's face, crying "Finders
keepers, losers weepers!"

He then telephoned Dan C and the two celebrated his good fortune.

cordially, as always,

rm