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Bug 118927

Summary: firefox-1.5-r9 Tools Menu has mail-related items
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Neil Darlow <neil>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team <mozilla>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID    
Severity: trivial    
Priority: High    
Version: 2005.1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Neil Darlow 2006-01-13 15:06:47 UTC
The mozilla-firefox-1.5-r9 ebuild has the following build control:

        mozconfig_annotate '' --disable-mailnews

but the Tools menu features the following two items which perform no action:

        Read Mail
        New Message...   Ctrl+M

This is probably an upstream bug but it looks a bit odd for a browser to have these options when Mail and News are disabled.
Comment 1 Allen Brooker (AllenJB) 2006-01-13 15:13:45 UTC
Firefox 1.0.7 has a mail button for the toolbar with similar options - it open up Thunderbird for me (which is my default mail program, so I can't tell whether it only applies to Thunderbird or the system default mail program). My guess is the menu items perform the same functionality.
Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2006-01-13 15:21:31 UTC
They can actually be used to control your mail-client of choice.