1482428 - https:// links in emails in 60.0 do not open - problem with included libnss3.so

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[peebee]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 (x86_64)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.12 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Clicked on a link in an email - Chromium browser said site unreachable

Right clicked link and copied URL - pasted URL directly into Chromium - site opened as it should have done.


Actual results:

Chromium browser opened but Site was unreachable


Expected results:

Site should have opened - was and is fine in 52.9.1

Comment 1

[peebee]

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Comment 2

[peebee]

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Comment 3

[peebee]

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Comment 4

[peebee]

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Comment 5

[peebee]

From further investigation seems to be a problem with https: links and certification. http: links work OK. All links work in previous version 52.9.1 on system identical in all other respects other than which thunderbird is loaded.

Comment 6

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Hmm, was is that org.freedesktop stuff we see in the screenshot in attachment 8999335 [details]? The other output indicates some certificate problem. I can click https: links without problem.

Comment 7

[peebee]

Search with error=-5992 brings up:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/chrome/L-I275tHav4/l4mw_nXNAAAJ

which suggested that the problem lay with the libnss3.so included in the TB60 build.

This has been confirmed by replacing the libnss3.so in /usr/lib/thunderbird with a link to ../libnss3.so
which in my Slackware based build is provided by:
mozilla-nss-3.37.3-i586-1.txz
from http://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/mozilla-nss-3.37.3-i586-1.txz

With this change https:// links in emails now open correctly in the browser again.....

So this bug is concerned with libnss3.so as included in TB60.

Comment 8

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Kai, NSS is your territory, no?

Comment 9

[Kai Engert [:KaiE:]]

IIUC, you don't have any problem inside Thunderbird, correct?

You click a link, and it opens Chromium. The problem appears in Chromium, not in Thunderbird, right?

If the issue is with Chromium, it might be best to start by asking a Chromium developer/expert to have a look at this issue.

IIUC Chromiums applies several tweaks to how it uses NSS.

If you can fix the issue by replacing a Chromium-private library, and use a OS-provided library instead, then it sounds like a problem with the Chromium configuration.

Comment 10

[peebee]

There is no other problem in Thunderbird60 other than that http:// links in messages when clicked open the browser but do not open the link.

The issue is not with Chromium....the system works fine with Thunderbird-52.9.1 - links open web pages as expected.

Problem occurs when 52.9.1 is replaced with 60.0 with no other changes to the system.

With the libnss3.so built into the Thunderbird-60.0 download - https:// links in emails do not open webpages

The webpages open fine if the url is copied and pasted directly into the browser.

Replacing the "built-in" libnss3.so as described above fixes the problem - the version of libnss3.so is then not provided by Chromium - it is the version provided by Slackware.

Therefore I submit that the problem lies in the version of libnss3.so built into the Thunderbird-60.0 image.

I will try to test whether the problem also occurs when using Firefox as the browser and will report back later.