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
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.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482568 ***