Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Version: 1.0-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Current Thunderbird no longer accepts parameters in the
network.protocol-handler.app.http preference. I suspect other similar
prefs (https, ftp etc) are also afflicted but I have not tested this.
For example I have Galeon set as my HTTP handler, with the following
custom start script in Gnome->Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Preferred
Applications:
/usr/bin/galeon -n %s
(launch a new tab not window).
Clicking a URL in Thunderbird results in a new Galeon window launching
instead. This behaviour is duplicated when an explicit override is
placed in thunderbird user prefs.js:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/galeon -n");
(formulated per Thunderbird documentation at:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html )
WORKAROUND:
-----------
A work-around is to "wrap" URL handlers into a shell script such as:
/usr/local/bin/gal-wrapper:
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/galeon -n $@
and then set this as the URL handler(s) in either Gnome or directly in
prefs.js:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/local/bin/gal-wrapper");
..but this isn't ideal or preferred.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9.2010043
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_GB)
Versions of packages mozilla-thunderbird depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.3-4 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.3 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.3-7 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.8-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.14-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libpango1.0-0 1.6.0-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.5-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-10 X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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* mozilla-thunderbird/browser: Debian
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