Comment 72 for bug 411358

(In reply to era eriksson from comment #59)
> So how about limiting the scope of the fix even further? It seems that the
> majority of the complaints are about patterns where the plus sign follows
> straight after the colon. While there are no registered URL protocols which
> start with a plus sign, it strikes me as awfully ad-hoc; but it should
> certainly limit the scope of this bug significantly. On the other hand,
> you'd still be affected if you receive emails with svn+ssh:// links in them.
My trigger pattern is part of a timestamp which contains "GMT+00:00" as a time offfset. Thunderbird is looking for a URI handler for "GMT+00" in my case.

> On the other hand, if Ubuntu is the problem, how about submitting the patch
> to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/411358
> instead? (They are awful at accepting patches for Firefox at least, but if
> the problem is squarely with their packaging, I hope it could be accepted.)
This affects too many distros to go after each and every one. The root problem is in GNOME2, the fact that GConf doesn't allow the plus sign in key names. I really doubt that the GNOME project will be willing to make a fundamental change to GConf to either allow pluses or to fail more gracefully but it would be fantastic if they would fix it (and that all major distros would push the update).