<blockquote>My settings are use URLPROXY and with Opera as my browser. I now messed  around with about 8 different versions of those options. The only ones  that did not crash was when I had only "Find automatically" on and let  IE start (with or without the IE malformed option). IE never opened the  page though, just sat there for ages so it could be IE got crap sent as  well.</blockquote><p>This is probably the problem.  The URL proxy should not be used, it's only there for backward compatibility.  Turn it off and only use either "Find browser automatically" or specify the command line option you need to start the browser.  </p><p>I do not know why IE did not open though and since you did not provide a real URL I can't test it.  That said I've had no problems with long URLs and Firefox, even the ones that were so long I had to select them manually. </p><p> </p>

<P>Copied from a news post as this seems like a clear bug:</P><P>*************************</P><P>Subject: Re: Hyperlink: Close the program </P>From: lmfback <peter.backgren@absolutelynos-p-a-m.ericsson.com> Newsgroups: comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows In article <du72k4lc6hqnno10ru80u2jf4irqpvehhq@4ax.com>, ---idw.doc--- @t-online.de says... > On Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:10:38 +0200, lmfback > <peter.backgren@absolutelynos-p-a-m.ericsson.com> wrote: >  > >  > > Seems like a very long url split to several lines crashes Pegasus when  > > you use "Open as hyperlink". Verified on 4.50 PB1. > >  > > Tried several combinations and all crashed so can't tell if it's  > > something in the url or just a size thing.  > >  > > Just sending this in a mail to yourself should do it. Seems irrelevant  > > how the lines are split.   https://xxxx.yyy.zzzzzzzz.com/Lists/Discussion/Threaded.aspx? RootFolder=%2fLists%2fDiscussion%2fHyperlink%20in%20wiki%20doesn%27t% 20work&FolderCTID= 0x0120020024D3AD0BACDE784EBC5BAF7669917DEB&TopicsView=https%3A%2F% 2Fxxxxx%2Eyyyyyy%2Ezzzzzz%2Ecom%2FLists%2FDiscussion%2FAllItems%2Easpx   > No crash here, but you didn't say what exactly causes the crash: Hovering > the mouse pointer above it? Clicking? Double-clicking? Selecting and > executing "Open selection as hyperlink ..." from the context menu? Is the > link part of a plain text or HTML message? What are your settings on Tools | > Options | Hyperlink => When opening a WWW hyperlink ... ? Any changes after > trying different options? No crash? Which version are you using? "executing "Open selection as hyperlink ..."" (kinda thought "use"  implied that :) Could have been HTML originally but my own tests were plain text. My settings are use URLPROXY and with Opera as my browser. I now messed  around with about 8 different versions of those options. The only ones  that did not crash was when I had only "Find automatically" on and let  IE start (with or without the IE malformed option). IE never opened the  page though, just sat there for ages so it could be IE got crap sent as  well. But, at some point I actually got debug information (and after that  even the original settings gave me info, weird). "Run-Time Check Failure #2 - Stack around the variable 'buffer' was  corrupted." Sounds like a bug to me :) I would post this on the forum but I'm so annoyed with the login there  already I just cannot make myself bother. If you ask for your password  you never ever get any mail back. And I've created at least three  accounts already (and forgotten the passwords for them all - which  probably means it doesn't accept a simple password). And if I saved the  passwords they are probably at home and not at work... Eskimo