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thunderbird package

[gutsy] links don't open anymore

Bug #146944 reported by LCID Fire
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #148008: ff will not open thunderbird. Edit Remove
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thunderbird (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: thunderbird

When I'm clicking on a link inside a message this link is not opened with firefox anymore.

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John Vivirito (gnomefreak) wrote :

Thank you for filing this bug with us.
What version of thunderbird are you using? Please check in syste,>prefferneces>perferred applications and tell me what browser you have set in there.the command box as well as perffered browser.
What browser do you have set in sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Changed in thunderbird:
assignee: nobody → mozilla-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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LCID Fire (lcid-fire) wrote :

The prefered browser is custom with the command line "mozilla-firefox %s". Similar for the mail reader.
I now changed that to the Firefox entry and it works again. Was the name of the binary changed with gutsy?

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Peter Miller (pmiller-opensource) wrote :

I am also seeing this with evolution on Gutsy

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu gutsy (development branch)"

uname -a
Linux goshawk 2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP Sun Sep 23 18:11:30 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

evolution --version
GNOME evolution 2.12.0

firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6, Copyright (c) 1998 - 2007 mozilla.org

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themroc (rauchweihe) wrote :

I have the same problem. Only in thunderbird no link will be opened. My default browser is konqueror.

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Peter Miller (pmiller-opensource) wrote : Re: [Bug 146944] Re: [gutsy] links don't open anymore

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:04 +0000, themroc wrote:
> I have the same problem. Only in thunderbird no link will be opened. My
> default browser is konqueror.

I had the same problem - they closed it "not a bug".
Go to Gnome Control Center/Preferred Applications and set the default
browser again. Gutsy nukes that setting.

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themroc (rauchweihe) wrote :

Am 24.10.2007 13:25 schrieb Peter Miller:
> > I had the same problem - they closed it "not a bug".
> > Go to Gnome Control Center/Preferred Applications and set the default
> > browser again. Gutsy nukes that setting.
> >
 I have try your instruction, but it has no effect. thunderbird can't
open any link.

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ppedrok (ppedrok) wrote :

I had the same problem: Kubuntu 7.10, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, preferred browser: Firefox (2.0.0.8). Thunderbird didn't open weblinks anymore.
I found the solution in: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=502651 (Rui Pais).
Why does this not happen by default, as it did in 7.04?

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Because mozilla changed from mozilla-thunderbird, to thunderbird, and the symlinks didn't all change.

Marking as dupe.

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