Bug 484481

Summary: Links In Preview Window No Longer Open New Browser Tab When Clicked
Product: [Applications] kmail2 Reporter: Garry Williams <gtwilliams>
Component: UIAssignee: kdepim bugs <pim-bugs-null>
Status: REOPENED ---    
Severity: normal CC: joshua, kdedev
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 6.0.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Garry Williams 2024-03-25 21:36:21 UTC 
HTTP links in the preview panel no longer open a new tab in my browser.  Furthermore, if I right click a link in the preview window, I can click open URL.  This immediately changes focus to my browser with the link in a new tab.

The previous behavior was to open the link in a new tab in the BACKGROUND without changing focus.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Navigate to a mail message that contains a hyperlink.
2.  Click the link.
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing happens.

EXPECTED RESULT
Link should be loaded in the background in a new tab in browser already running in session.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version: 6.6.2
Kernel Version: 6.8.1-300.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.1 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics 620
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: XPS 13 9370

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Garry Williams 2024-03-25 21:48:42 UTC 
Interestingly, it looks like a plain text mail message that contains text that looks like an http link and is made clickable by kmail does open a new tab (without having to right click and select Open URL).  But that still changes focus to the browser, which is a regression.  Links contained in html messages seem to be the ones that do not click.
Comment 2 TraceyC 2024-07-10 17:13:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482568 ***
Comment 3 Garry Williams 2025-12-19 05:27:42 UTC 
(In reply to TraceyC from comment #2)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482568 ***

This is NOT a duplicate of that bug.  See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=482568#c15
Comment 4 aristsakas 2026-01-16 21:50:18 UTC 
*** Bug 503309 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***