[CentOS] intrusive chrome [was: Re: clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox]

[Phil Dobbin]

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...

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