full-disclosure - Re: Flaw in Firefox 3.0: protocol-handler.warn-external are ignored

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Message-ID: <485C4965.6010604@cruzio.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:20:53 -0700
From: Daniel Veditz <dveditz@...zio.com>
To: carl hardwick <hardwick.carl@...il.com>
Cc: Full-Disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Flaw in Firefox
 3.0:	protocol-handler.warn-external are ignored

Daniel Veditz wrote:
> carl hardwick wrote:
>> I set network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto to 'true', clicked
>> on an e-mail link and Windows Mail is launched without any warnings
> 
> That state is now saved elsewhere and managed through the "Applications" 
> tab of the preferences dialog

The developer of this new way to manage the association (including the 
ability to hook mailto: links to your preferred webmail site) said it was 
not intended to obsolete those prefs. This is indeed a bug.

Filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440892

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