Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Links not working from Thunderbird-2.0.0.22 to Firefox-3.5

[David]

walt wrote:
> On 08/04/2009 05:15 AM, Jacques Montier wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Since i upgraded Firefox to Firefox-3.5-r1, my links from Thunderbird to
>> Firefox don't work anymore.
>> In Thunderbird-2.0.0.22 : Edition ->  Preferences ->  Advanced ->
>> General
>> ->  Configuration Editor, i get :
>> network.protocol-handler.app.http type chain with /usr/bin/firefox.
>> Nothing happens when clicking on a link in Thunderbird.
>> In console /usr/bin/firefox works properly.
>> In Openoffice, links launch Firefox.
>> Everything is ok if i change /usr/bin/firefox to /usr/bin/midori.
>
> It may depend on what desktop you use.  I use gnome, and the usual
> reason for this problem is that the setting in System->Preferences->
> Preferred-Applications is set to point at the wrong browser name.
>
> I believe kde has a similar menu item somewhere, not certain.
>
> Possibly the name of your firefox binary was changed in the upgrade?
> Maybe an old symlink is pointing to an old (deleted) file?
>
>
>
I forgot where I found it but here is mine;
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", 
"/home/david/firefox_launch");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", 
"/home/david/firefox_launch");

cat firefox_launch
#!/bin/bash

unset LD_PRELOAD
exec /usr/bin/firefox "$@"




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