Robin Whittle wrote:

> On Win 98/2k with a freshly installed Mozilla 0.9.6 (build 2001112009):
> 
>   New Composer Page.
>  
>   Type:  http://www.mozilla.org
> 
>   Shift-Home to select it.
> 
>   Control L to make it a link.
> 
>   By default, the selected text appears as the link location. (Nice!)
> 
>   Click OK.
> 
> The text looks plain - with no blue or underlining.  Yet the HTML source
> and the saved file does contain a link.  With Normal or Preview mode,
> there is never any blue text or underline.  But saving the file and
> re-opening it causes the blue text and underlining to appear.
> 
> Likewise, type:
> 
> blah
> blah
> blah
> 
> select the second "blah" and use Control L and type in
> "http://www.mozilla.org"; and again, there is no underline or blue text. 
> But the link is there in the source and the saved file.
> 
> Going into HTML source and back to Normal or Preview again does not fix
> it.  If in HTML source mode any change is made to the file at all, then
> on return to Normal or Preview mode, then the blue text and underlinging
> appears fine.  Control Z makes the blue text and underlining go away. 
> The easiest workaround for this seems to be going to HTML source mode,
> inserting a space and then deleting it - then returning to Normal mode.
> 
> Using the Toolbar Link button and typing in "http://www.mozilla.org";
> for  Link Text and Link Location works fine.  Likewise using Insert >
> Link or Control L without any text selected - and again typing in the
> Link Text and Link Location - works fine.
> 
> If no-one tells me this is a bug, I will report it.  I had been
> using 0.9.4 and had no such problems.   I just dowloaded the most recent
> nightly build for Windows (2001112408) and it had the same problem. 
> 0.9.5 (2001101117) does not have this problem.
> 
>   - Robin
> 


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