CentOS - Dec 2013 - clicking on link in Thunderbird fails to open page in Firefox

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?

On Wed, Dec 25, 2013 at 10:08 AM, ken <gebser at mousecar.com>
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?
Yes, known to happen to some (or many?) users.

https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43984

You can find a workaround in that forum thread.

Akemi

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.

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