On 26/12/13 13:53, ken wrote:
On 12/25/2013 09:09 PM Phil Dobbin wrote:
On 25/12/13 18:08, ken wrote:
This worked fine for years until I updated firefox and thunderbird recently. Now, however, when I click on a link in an email in thunderbird, rather than open the indicated webpage in firefox, nothing at all happens.
network.protocol-handler.app.http in tbird's about:config specifies the executable /usr/lib/thunderbird/open-browser.sh and running the latter at the CLI with a URL as an arg does work as expected: the spec'd URL is loaded into firefox. So I suspect a bug in tbird.
Anyone else having this problem?
I'm having a problem with Thunderbird's links but not quite the same. I click on a link in a email & it actually loads it in Chrome but then it freezes the whole machine. I can launch a terminal via Ctrl-Alt-F2 but can't get a prompt in order to actually do anything.
My only recourse is a hard reboot via the mains plug.
This has happened for the last few updates. If you get any joy from the Thunderbird people, please let me know.
Cheers,
Phil.In the reading I did trying to resolve my issue, I ran across a few conversations about your situation. Because it had to do with chrome and so not my situation at all, I don't remember the details, just that the chrome install might have greedily set some system variable which it shouldn't have and that this screwed up some things. Google for it and you should find others' experiences and perhaps also somebody's solution.
Thanks, Ken.
It's also happening now with Firefox as well (in fact, Firefox is virtually unusable) so I suspect there is something happening with either this machine or the OS.
Cheers,
Phil...