Desktop links to websites don't work any more.
My desktop links to websites no longer work with SeaMonkey.
This is my system info;
$ uname -r
2.6.28-16-generic
Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091017 SeaMonkey/2.0
Links;
Name: Link to AEA Credit Union
Type: HTML document (text/html)
Size: 11.2KB (11514 bytes)

Location: /home/al/desktop
Volume: unknown

Accessed: unknown
Modified: unknown

The link(s) worked until a few days ago with SeaMonkey. Since I don't use them every day, I'm uncertain just when they stopped working more precisely than within the past few days.
I tried creating new links, via drag 'n' drop, just as these were created, with no help.
Just for jollies, I installed Firefox, and tried the links. They work with Firefox.
The simple answer would be to just use Firefox, I suppose. Except that I never have liked Firefox. I prefer the original Mozilla Suite. But, that has evolved into the SeaMonkey Suite.
Short term, I can just use Firefox to launch the links, and use SeaMonkey for general use, except that, even though I have SeaMonkey named as the preferred browser, when I try to open any html file, unless I right click and say open with SeaMonkey, Firefox wants to bully its way in.
Does anyone have a clue what I can do to fix this?
Thanks,
owa
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Have you tried setting the preferred application for HTML files? Also, what desktop environment are you using?

I'm using the gnome desktop. As long as I've been using Linux, 7 years, now, Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS, Mandriva, I've never had to set preferred application for HTML specifically. I do have SeaMonkey set as my preferred browser. Start > System > Preferences > Preferred Applications > (Web Browser = SeaMonkey) (Mail Reader = SeaMonkey Mail) This has always sufficed for opening HTML files with my preferred browser.
As I indicated, I've had SeaMonkey installed from the outset, with SeaMonkey as my preferred browser. The desktop links always worked till about a week or so ago when they just stopped working. As I said, just for jollies, I installed Firefox, and the desktop links launch with Firefox.
Ubuntu 9.04 ships with SeaMonkey-1.1.17 by default. I forced an upgrade to SeaMonkey-2.0 using Ubuntuzilla. No help.
If I remove Firefox, html documents open with SeaMonkey. With Firefox installed, they will open with SeaMonkey only if I right click > open with > SeaMonkey.
If I remove Firefox, the desktop links do absolutely nothing. With Firefox installed, they launch with Firefox.
Something of a p.i.t.a., I can get along with things as they are, fighting the bullying of Firefox as the price to pay for working desktop links. However, I do sit directly upon where this pains me.
Something in my /home/.*?* file/files got altered somehow. The mystery is which file, and in what way.

I had this same problem using Seamonkey 2.0 on Fedora 12 64 bit. I do not yet know the cure for this, however there is a slightly better workaround. Select Preferred Applications (System -> Preferences). Set your default browser to Seamonkey and then make sure that Open link with web browser default is selected. Since a recent update neither of the other two options seem to be working with Seamonkey but are fine for Firefox. This is not a perfect scenario, but it is better than Firefox opening when you do not want it to.

I had this same problem using Seamonkey 2.0 on Fedora 12 64 bit. I do not yet know the cure for this, however there is a slightly better workaround. Select Preferred Applications (System -> Preferences). Set your default browser to Seamonkey and then make sure that Open link with web browser default is selected. Since a recent update neither of the other two options seem to be working with Seamonkey but are fine for Firefox. This is not a perfect scenario, but it is better than Firefox opening when you do not want it to.