Hello Jens, On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 04:53:22PM +0100, Jens Reyer wrote: [...] > > Possible workarounds (successfully tested): > =========================================== > 1. Create a new profile > 2. Or reinstall the transitional package: > $ sudo apt install iceweasel > 3. Or manually create a compatibility link: > $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/x-www-browser /usr/bin/iceweasel > 4. Or fix mimeTypes.rdf (replace all broken "/usr/bin/iceweasel" > occurrences (requires icedove restart): > $ for file in $(find .icedove/ -name mimeTypes.rdf); do sed -i > "s|/usr/bin/iceweasel|/usr/bin/x-www-browser|g" "$file" ; done > > I went for #4, so this is fixed for me now.
thank you for your analysis of this problem, I was affected by this problem too while working on the Thunderbird transition. I also tend to your suggested solution on point 4 as the correct way is using x-www-browser instead of some specific browser binary in the mimeTypes.rdf file. I modified the new prepared starting wrapper script for the thunderbird transition in this way. Regards Carsten