I have seen this bug too since upgrading from Ubuntu 7.04 to Ubuntu 7.10. To show what's happening I got to 'about:config' and I edit this key
network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto and set it to 'true' instead of the default (which is false). Next I go to: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html And I click one of the links. I get a warning saying that Firefox is going to run the command "mozilla-thunderbird %s". But there is no such program on my system. I believe that "mozilla-thunderbird" was renamed to just "thunderbird" in the latest release, and the Firefox protocol handlers somehow haven't been updated, or perhaps are stored in the user profile and can't be automatically updated...? In any case, a hacky workaround is gksudo gedit /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird Paste in the following text: #!/usr/bin/env python import os, sys prog = "/usr/bin/thunderbird" os.execvp(prog,tuple([prog]+sys.argv[1:])) Then save and exit gedit. Then: sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/mozilla-thunderbird This works for me. -- ff will not open thunderbird https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148008 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
