379926 - HTTP links don't load in a browser when clicked

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 216252

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Victor Engmark]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070331 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.0 (20070425)

Email URLs work fine, but clicking an HTTP URL does nothing. There's not even a message in the error console.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up an email with an HTTP URL.
2. Activate the URL with Enter or a left mouse click.
Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
1. Focus stolen by the default browser.
2. Page loads in a new window / tab in the browser.

Running KDE 3.5.

I also tried to change the settings according to http://kb.mozillazine.org/Setting_Your_Default_Browser#KDE, but it didn't help.

Could this be a KDE or Firefox bug? I'm having the same problem when clicking "Visit URL" in Sunbird. It could be related to Sunbird bug 356946, but as mentioned, I don't get any message in the error console.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Works fine for me on linux. Does it work in other applications?

Comment 2

[Tony Goold]

I think this is related to bug 216252, where Mozilla can get the default Gnome browser but not the default KDE browser.

Comment 3

[Bob Vincent]

I'm having the same problem in Linux.

The "Help/About" screen reports version 2.0.0.22 (20090608)

I'm not running Gnome nor KDE, but I am running dbus and hal.

My relevant prefs.js lines are:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/bin/firefox");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.expose-all", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.expose.http", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.expose.https", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.ftp", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.http", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.external.https", true);
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external-default", false);