Bug 215923 – [GTK] mailto handler not launched

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED MOVED

Clicking on a mailto link (the ones at https://www.scottseverance.us/mailto.html for instance) doesn't launch the mailto handler. Tried with the default mailto-handler in Gnome-shell (Thunderbird). The same link correctly launches Thunderbird in both Firefox and Chromium.
Tested with Web 3.36.3 in Gnome Shell 3.36.4.

[Adrian Perez]

As far as I understand, WebKit is not responsible of handling clicking
“mailto:” links so this would be a bug in Epiphany. I have reported it
there: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1324

> --- Comment #1 from Adrian Perez <[e-mail]> ---
> As far as I understand, WebKit is not responsible of handling clicking
> “mailto:” links so this would be a bug in Epiphany.

I was told by the Epiphany team to report the bug to the WebKit team :-)
(see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1319)

> I have reported it there:
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1324
which is now a duplicate of #1319

[Adrian Perez]

(In reply to j.cubizolles from comment #2)
> > --- Comment #1 from Adrian Perez <[e-mail]> ---
> > As far as I understand, WebKit is not responsible of handling clicking
> > “mailto:” links so this would be a bug in Epiphany.
> 
> I was told by the Epiphany team to report the bug to the WebKit team :-)
> (see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1319)
> 
> > I have reported it there:
> > https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/issues/1324
> which is now a duplicate of #1319

I didn't find the original bug report in the Epiphany issue tracker
when I went there, that's why I opened a new one... my bad O:-)

Good news is that the issue has been fixed in Epiphany in this pull
request: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany/-/merge_requests/810

Therefore I am closing this bug here. Thanks everybody!