Marc Shapiro wrote:
Adam Hardy wrote:
Marc Shapiro on 04/12/06 01:38, wrote:
I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox
(2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and
IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a
while, now, with no problems. When I switched from
debian-thunderbird to the upstream version (1.5.0.8) urls stopped
opening in firefox. They have, in fact, stopped opening in anything.
I have made sure that /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser is pointing to
the proper firefox binary and I don't know what else to check. I
can not find any configuration option, or preference, that says
where links should open, only where html attachments should open.
Can anyone tell me what I am missing?
Are you sure you mean urls stopped working in FF? Not TB? If TB, then
try going into your preferences / Advanced / General / Config editor,
and edit the following property:
network.protocol-handler.app.http
to point to the firefox app.
I must not have been clear. I fully expect that the problem is with
Thunderbird and not Firefox. I looked for that configuration item and
did not see it. I will have to check again tonight, when I get the
time to check into it. I was about to add the line manually to
prefs.js. I also found a reference to setting
network.protocol-handler.external.http to false and setting
network.protocol-handler.expose to true, as well. I will have to look
for these, this evening, as well. I will report back if I have any
success.
I could not find that configuration item in the list. I exited
thunderbird and manually added the lines to prefs.js and then restarted
thunderbird. The preferences then showed up, but it did not change
anything. Thunderbird still fails to send the url to firefox. Since
the debian package of thunderbird had worked previously, I decided to
try icedove. It did not work, either. If I can't get links in my
e-mail to open a browser, I may have to just stick with Sarge and not
upgrade at all.
Any other suggestions?
BTW, I read something about firefox requiring gconf to handle this. Is
that true? Because I do not have gconf installed on the Etch partitions.
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