[CentOS] What's up with Firefox/Thundrebird

Tue Dec 9 01:51:04 UTC 2014
Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com>

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey All,
>
> Has anyone had trouble with Firefox/Thunderbird?
>
> When I log on if I start Thunderbird first then I can't start Firefox.
> Clicking on a link in an email fails to start Firefox.
>
> If I start Firefox before Thunderbird then hyperlinks in emails open a
> page in the existing Firefox instance.
>
> Other users on this same machine are having the same problems.
>
> This has been happening for that last several days.
>
> CentOS release 6.6 (Final)

Apparently you are affected by this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166921

(Thanks to a post by Phil Wyett on the Scientific Linux mailing list
regarding the bug report.)

Try downgrading nss-softokn to 3.14.3-17.el6 to 'fix' the issue.
Hopefully a patched version is released upstream soon.

Akemi