Email links of the form "mailto:*" don't work as expected in Firefox
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Description
Using 'f' brings up character sequences for "mailto:*" links as expected, but typing those characters brings up the website of the email's domain rather than opening a blank email in the default email program with the "To" field filled in.
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Go to URL 'http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2020/02/9e-is-here.html'
- Click on the 'Alexis Cortez' link, which has an
hrefproperty ofmailto:alexis.cortez@cengage.com - This will open
cengage.comrather than a blank email
Firefox 72.0.2
Windows_NT 10.0
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Reproduce the reported mailto:alexis.cortez@cengage.com case in Firefox 72.0.2 on Windows 10, following the listed blog URL and Vimium's f flow. Trace the handling of the generated character sequence and verify that selecting it opens the default mail program with the address in the To field instead of cengage.com.
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