Closed Bug 256561 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

clicking on a link in an external application fails to launch firefox

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

x86
Windows XP
defect
Not set
major

Tracking

()

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: tedwolf, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 Firefox/0.9.3 When any other application (for example: mozilla thunderbird mail messages) have embedded links to urls, clicking on them fails to launch a browser instance, unless a browser is already open. If one is open, then the embedded link works perfectly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open external application with embedded url without firefox running 2. click on it 3. nothing happens Actual Results: nothing happens Expected Results: launched firefox browser and opened webpage referenced by url Build platform target i686-pc-cygwin Build tools Compiler Version Compiler flags $(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 12.00.8804 -TC -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE) $(CYGWIN_WRAPPER) cl 12.00.8804 -TP -nologo -W3 -nologo -Gy -Fd$(PDBFILE) Configure arguments --disable-ldap --disable-mailnews --enable-extensions=cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,typeaheadfind,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth --enable-crypto --disable-composer --enable-single-profile --disable-profilesharing --enable-optimize --disable-debug --disable-tests --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-official-branding
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I don't know if this is relevant or not, but sp2 installed today, and suddenly everything works like it should. Problem solved. I'll let you know if it starts happening again.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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