Thunderbird links do not open in firefox-3.5 after u[SOLVED]

depontius · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1843

I recently upgraded my home systems to mozilla-firefox-3.5.*. After the upgrade, clicking on a URL in thunderbird no longer opens the link in firefox, neither with new browser, nor new tab in running browser. I updated the protocol.handler settings long ago, and it worked in the mozilla-firefox-3.0.* series. I see another thread "Thunderbird url does not open firefox on dual screen desktop" where this is occuring on a multi-desktop situation, but feels that it's working in the normal situation. I'm just plain broken, even for single-screen.
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audiodef · Advocate Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 4178

I think you have to set the option in Thunderbird. Maybe you need to re-set it manually and point to the FF executable. I haven't set mine in a while because I don't use it that often, but I would think that's what you need to do.
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Jaglover · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:11 pm Post subject:

depontius · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1843

I did that way back when, in order to get links working under thunderbird-2.0, or was it thunderbird-1.5. Those buggers are still in there, they just don't work :

depontius · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1843

OK, now we're weird.

I'm serving $HOME out of nfs, and have it mounted on clients upstairs and down. Because of the sqlite/sync problems get even worse over nfs, the ".mozilla" directories are really on local disk, and in $HOME .mozilla is a symlink to that local space. However .thunderbird is still on nfs. So basically both machines are running not just identical thunderbird setups, it's the same thunderbird setup on both.

Clicking on a URL on the upstairs computer does nothing.
Clicking on a URL on the downstairs computer opens the link, bringing up firefox if it needs to.

Both systems were updated this past weekend, at the same time.
Both systems have the same nfs space mounted as $HOME.
Both systems are amd64, though downstairs is dual-core and upstairs is only single-core.
Salient features in /etc/portage are essentially the same, though the machines have different missions. The upstairs machine is my MythTV backend, and our general-use computer. The downstairs machine is destined to become a dedicated MythTV frontend appliance, but is currently in "extended grooming."

Links out of thunderbird work downstairs, but not upstairs. Incidentally, upstairs they fail on both my wife's and my accounts. I haven't tested her account downstairs, since I don't have her xfce desktop installed here. I installed the standard protocol-handler statements in both accounts.
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Chris W · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:41 am Post subject:

I had the same problem and got around it by having Thunderbird execute a wrapper script:

Jaglover · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 8:18 am Post subject:

The advantage of putting it in user.js is it won't be overwritten by Thunderbird. Did you try?
BTW, don't know if this is significant but I have no space after comma.

depontius · Veteran Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 1843

The wrapper script solved it, thanks very much. Domestic tranquility is resumed - my wife has her links back.

Neither grep'ing the lines into user.js worked, nor removing the space. But at this point I've got "/usr/local/bin/link-hack" that unsets LD_PRELOAD and changed the pointer in user.js.

I'll mark this [SOLVED].

Thanks again.
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Bushmann · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:46 pm Post subject:

Finally

I've had this problems for years... actually I had already given up, but now I found this - works perfectly!

Actually, isn't this a bug of thunderbird? You shouldn't have to write a wrapper script just to be able to open a link in firefox...
So, using thunderbird 2.0.0.22 and firefox 3.5.2, Chris' wrapper script was the only solution that worked for me...

--- EDIT ---

Btw, I've now installed thunderbird 3, and links don't work anymore

John R. Graham · Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 1:55 pm Post subject:

Something funny's going on here. With Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 and Firefox 3.5.6 (latest stable versions at the time of this writing), Jaglover's solution worked perfectly for me. No wrapper script needed.

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magowiz · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:11 pm Post subject:

John R. Graham · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:38 pm Post subject:

My arch is plain old (mostly) stable x86. I use baselayout-2* (and thus openrc), portage-2*, and emacs-vcs.

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magowiz · Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2010 1:54 pm Post subject:

kiss-o-matic · Guru Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 392 Location: Tokyo

I'm late jumping in, but this thread helped me. I emerged world, and my old solution (wrapper script) broke. Jaglover's solution of just pointing to the firefox binary worked. Running the wrapper script from the command line worked though, so I'm not sure what's up. Either way, I'm sorted.