http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601392
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=601392#c0
Summary: Cannot launch Firefox from url link in Thunderbird 3.04 Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Milestone 6 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Other AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: rb03884@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: ---
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100417 SUSE/3.6.4-1.1 Firefox/3.6.4
When I click on an html link in an email link in Thunderbird 3.0.4, Firefox 3.6.4 will never start. In addition, the Help in Thunderbird cannot access the Internet.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open Thunderbird 2. Click on an url link in an email in Thunderbird 3. Firefox will not launch
Actual Results: Firefox will not start up from within Thunderbird
Expected Results: Firefox starts from within Thunderbird
A temporary fix is:
1. Open konsole, copy and paste the following line of code:
gconftool-2 -s --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "/usr/bin/firefox "%s""
2. Copy and paste the next line of code:
gconftool-2 -s --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command "/usr/bin/firefox "%s""