difficulty with links inside edit fields in thunderbird and firefox

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Reported by camlorn on 2013-04-15 15:07
NVDA version: main-5986.
The following is observed in two places: thunderbird and wordpress's visual editor (which surprisingly works at least somewhat). It may occur elsewhere. Thunderbird is the problem at the moment, but the problem may exist across the entirety of Mozilla's frameworks.
When editing in these two applications, everything is fine so long as only paragraphs are used. If one inserts a link and attempts to arrow past it, NVDA will do odd things which are not entirely consistent. The most common of these is to ignore the link entirely, as well as the "lines" before and after it. This can be worked around in WordPress by using the HTML editor, but can not be worked around in thunderbird which auto detects e-mails and urls, turning them into links as soon as they are typed. The link can be moved through and read with the left and right arrows, thus moving by character. I've also seen nvda report character 0ffc around the link but this is not consistent.
This is thunderbird 17.0.5, which works well everywhere else. Wordpress is the latest version, but wordpress may be misusing Aria. I mention it only because it's the same issue in both.
I've flagged this as browse mode, but am not sure if that is correct.
Blocked by #1668

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Comment 1 by jteh on 2013-04-15 22:13
Duplicate of #1668. You can work around this in Thunderbird by disabling Tools -> Account Settings -> -> Composition & Addressing -> Compose messages in HTML format. I do realise this isn't ideal.
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State: closed

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Comment 2 by jteh on 2013-07-09 06:21
I'm curious as to how you have Thunderbird automatically linkifying URLs as you type them. From my testing locally (and according to several articles, including this one), automatic linkifying only happens when the message is sent or saved.