275344 - links do not work in linux if browser is not firefox

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[jstaerk]

My fault: I added some comments concerning this on bug 272519, Mike
Cowperthwaite told me to post it as a new bug, if comment 8 on 272519 did not help.

Description: (Linux) I have Seamonkey 1.8a5 and TB 1.0 installed and when I
click on a http- or https-link in TB, nothing will happen unless firefox is set
as default browser by confirming the according dialogue in firefox. 

I use KDE, so I'd expect either Mozilla or Konqueror to open this link.

A "http- or https-link" means either a link in a mail that I recieved or a link
in the TB UI like "get new extensions".

Seamonkey way installed by "tar xvfz"ing the XFT+GTK2-archive.

After having installed Firefox with the installer, clicked links will flawlessly
open in Firefox as soon as the dialog "set firefox as default browser" on
firefox-startup is confirmed. 

Where does Firefox write the setting to set itself as default browser to?
Obviously TB expects this setting at this place and Mozilla does not write it there?


As to comment 8 on 272519, well, it did not work. I uninstalled Firefox by
deleting /usr/local/firefox/ and ~/.mozilla/firefox/ and added the folowing
lines to my prefs.js.

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto", "gsendmail");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.http", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.https", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.mailto", "true");

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.