247215 - clicking on a URL in thurderbird fails to launch firefox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: X-remote, defect)

Description

[Greg Schussman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 Firefox/0.8.0+

When I receive an email with a URL in it, thunderbird underlines that URL. 
Clicking on the underlined URL fails to launch firefox.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Send yourself an email with, say, "http://www.google.com/" in the message text.

2.  run thurderbird and read that message

3.  click on the google link in the message

Actual Results:  
nothing happens at all

Expected Results:  
firefox should launch and display the google page

in thunderbird, I have tried tools:options:attachments:File Types:HTML:Change
Action... set to "Open them in the Default Application: /usr/bin/htmlview"
and "Open them using this application  /path-to-firefox/firefox" and "Open them
using this application /usr/X11R6/bin/xmessage" (just to see if anything happens
at all; xmessage runs fine by hand, so I figured xmessage would display the URL
when run from thunderbird).

In all cases, clicking the link in the email resulted in nothing happening at
all.  I have also tried quitting and re-running thunderbird after each change,
but that didn't accomplish anything either.

Comment 1

[Brian Moon]

I am experiencing a similar problem on Windows.  Links in all other apps I have
tried (Trillian, OO, even tried OE) work fine.  But when I click a link in
Thunderbird, Firefox does not open.  However, if I thn click the FF icon, the
page appears to have loaded, the UI just did not load.  Still, somethings are
not right.  All my extensions do not load in this case.  I have to close FF,
reopen it and then click the link in TB.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.8

Thunderbird version 0.7.2 (20040707)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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