I found this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86627
Setting "network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http(s) = true" and then manually selecting /usr/bin/firefox as the application solved the problem for me. Trying to open links with the "firefox (default)" entry that was already present did not work for some reason.
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