I'm currently using Karmic (upgraded from Intrepid then Jaunty). Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 / Firefox 3.5.9
Thunderbird WILL launch links with Opera and Midori but not Firefox. I tested this by adding the following user prefs to Thunderbird: "network.protocol-handler.app.http" = "/usr/bin/opera" "network.protocol-handler.app.https" = "/usr/bin/opera" and then amending to: "network.protocol-handler.app.http" = "/usr/bin/midori" "network.protocol-handler.app.https" = "/usr/bin/midori" After spending a couple of hours looking into this, the root of my problem turned out to be caused by Thunderbird setting the environment variable "LD_PRELOAD=libpulsedsp.so" before calling Firefox, which would then silently fail. As a workaround, I created a custom Firefox launch script to unset this variable first. Create a file "/usr/local/bin/firefox-launcher" ------------------- #!/bin/bash unset LD_PRELOAD /usr/bin/firefox $1 ------------------- Make it executable. Ensure that Thunderbird has the following config settings: "network.protocol-handler.app.http" = "/usr/local/bin/firefox-launcher" "network.protocol-handler.app.https" = "/usr/local/bin/firefox-launcher" Thunderbird should now open links with Firefox. -- Thunderbird doesn't open http link in firefox https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/136303 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs