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Description of problem: When having xdg-utils and firefox installed, but no email clients, gets the system into a look when a mailto link is clicked. Firefox sees an email link and starts xdg-email to handle it, and xdg-email cannot find an email client and starts the first browser it finds (firefox), which opens the mailto link in a new tab, which kicks off xdg-email, etc. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xdg-utils-1.1.1-1.fc23 firefox-43.0.3-1.fc23 How reproducible: Consistent Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install firefox and xdg-email, make sure no email clients are installed. 2. Click on a mailto link or run xdg-email Actual results: Firefox gets into a loop and opens an infinite number of tabs. Expected results: Nothing happens, or an error gets thrown. Either would be reasonable.
Fun. We added checks in xdg-open to prevent similar recursion in the past, probably ought to do the same here in xdg-email.
While I'm looking into this, would be worth looking into why firefox is trying to use xdg-email (it probably shouldn't). Ah, I found old bug #643425 on that topic (which I imo semi-foolishly agreed to at the time), but it's not clear if it was implemented or not. In particular, doing *both* of these is obviously bad: 1. xdg-email fallback to launching browser to handle mailto: 2. firefox fallback to running xdg-email to handle it What does this say for you? firefox menu => preferences => applications => mailto content type?
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