1680986 - Thunderbird doesn't open links in messages after upgrade to 78.5.1

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[Emerson Prado]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open e-mail with link
2. Click in link or right-click and select "Open link in browser"

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

Link should be opened in browser

Comment 1

[Emerson Prado]

As described, clicking in link or right-clicking and selecting "Open link in browser" don't work. But right-clicking and selecting "Copy link" works correctly, and I can paste the URL in the browser without issues.

Problem started immediately* after upgrading from 78.5.0-1deb10u1 to 78.5.1-1deb10u1

grep -E '^(Start-Date|Upgrade):' /var/log/apt/history.log | grep -B 1 thunderbird
Start-Date: 2020-12-04  12:08:14
Upgrade: lightning:amd64 (1:78.5.0-1~deb10u1, 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1), thunderbird:amd64 (1:78.5.0-1~deb10u1, 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1), thunderbird-l10n-pt-br:amd64 (1:78.5.0-1~deb10u1, 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1)

Some system info

uname -r
4.19.0-13-amd64

dpkg -l thunderbird*
...
ii  thunderbird            1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1 amd64 ...
ii  thunderbird-l10n-pt-br 1:78.5.1-1~deb10u1 all   ...

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=4
DISTRIB_CODENAME=debbie
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="LMDE 4 Debbie"

dpkg -l cinnamon
ii  cinnamon       4.6.7+debbie amd64

Preferred browser and e-mail client settings in Cinnamon are, respectively, Firefox and Thunderbird. I changed no Cinnamon/Thunderbird/Firefox setting since links worked.

• In fact, I can't remember if I used Thunderbird yesterday after upgrading

Comment 2

[Emerson Prado]

Where it says "78.5.1-1deb10u1 to 78.5.0-1deb10u1", pls read 78.5.0-1~deb10u1 to 78.5.1-1~deb10u1

Comment 3

[Emerson Prado]

I manually installed 78.5.0 from archive repo and confirmed the same links (tried 3 different ones) work without problems in 78.5.0 and don't in 78.5.1.

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away until Aug 10)]

Did you try 78.5.1 (or 78.6) from archive.mozilla.org, not from the distro?

Comment 5

[Emerson Prado]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #4)

Did you try 78.5.1 (or 78.6) from archive.mozilla.org, not from the distro?

I hadn't. Dowloaded 78.5.1 now, and confirmed that it works correctly from archive, but not from the distro. So I guess I should reopen this against the distro bug tracker, right?

Thanks,
Emerson

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] (away until Aug 10)]

Yes.