"Browser" problems in Thunderbird 3

TSquaredF · 12-15-2009, 01:27 PM

Per this thread I installed Thunderbird 3 into my Slackware64-13 desktop box. Most things are working & I'm fairly happy with it, but for one bump. Clicking anything that should open a browser window, does precisely nothing. This includes a link within an email and pushing F1 or doing menu actions to bring up "Help". Note that installing the Thunderbrowser extension allows Thunderbird to display links, but no help there with "Help". Anyone have any ideas?
Regards,
Bill

mlangdn · 12-15-2009, 02:11 PM

The first time I clicked a link, it asked me what to do. I pointed TB to FF and selected "Always do this" or something similar, then hit ok. Links open in FF all the time now.

David the H. · 12-15-2009, 02:57 PM

I don't know if anything's changed in v.3, but should be able to open up the "settings > advanced > config editor" (i.e. about:config), and manually set the network.protocol-handler.app.[http|https] settings to the path of your browser of choice.

TSquaredF · 12-17-2009, 06:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David the H.

I don't know if anything's changed in v.3, but should be able to open up the "settings > advanced > config editor" (i.e. about:config), and manually set the network.protocol-handler.app.[http|https] settings to the path of your browser of choice.

Thanks. I've tried your suggestion, with no help. Also a much older thread suggested putting the same things in "prefs.js". That didn't work, either. It is all mute, however, because yesterday my wife so was very ticked at not being able to open a link in TB, that I just downgraded to the stock TB. I appreciate the efforts.
Regards,
Bill

mlangdn · 12-18-2009, 01:47 AM

Well crapola! I just upgraded to FF-3.5.6, and now I can't open links with TB. Nothing seems to work and I can't find anything to help with this either. I was using FF-3.5.5. It may have something to do with the new version.

Oh well, its been a rotten day anyhow. Time for bed!

TSquaredF · 12-18-2009, 12:12 PM

I'm on FF 3.5.5, maybe upgrading will help me!
Regards,
Bill

mlangdn · 12-18-2009, 12:27 PM

I just now put it all back together on TB - back to 2.0.0.23 that is. I had screwed too much with about:config in TB and hosed all my email stuff by erasing prefs.js. Thankfully, I had a backup of an old dot Thunderbird folder with a good prefs.js file. So I renamed the current .thunderbird folder, started TB and let it create a new folder, then deleted everything out of it and copied over the contents of the previous folder. Then I deleted prefs.js, and copied over the older one from last year. All is back to the beginning now. I now open links in TB to FF once again.

Now I'm going to upgrade again to TB-3x and see what happens.

I am such a glutton for punishment and torture.

mlangdn · 12-18-2009, 12:48 PM

TB-3x can can wait. After repairing the damage back to the original, I upgraded TB again. It will not open links in FF, and I did not attempt to fix it. I just "upgraded" back to 2x.

Laodiceans · 12-18-2009, 01:42 PM

I had the same problem in two diferent machines. On one the file pref.js had this entry:

Code:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");

and worked fine.

And on another I had this:

Code:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.ftp", );
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.http",);

This last one never open the links. To work or delete the both lines or put the path "/usr/bin/firefox" after the comma.