955431 - IB does not open links, as http/https handlers not populated

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 955440

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 1995 by Hronom <hronom AT gmail.com> at 2013-06-08 10:51:00 UTC ***

Than I click on link in the conversation its dont open in my default browser.
My system is linux(lubuntu 13.04 DE: LXDE) and I use fresh install of instantbird 1.4.

In "options->Applications" panel I have empty list(no entrys).

Guys in irc helps me. Thay gives link to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=907398#p907398 I do all like in this post and its start to work.

Comment 1

[aleth [:aleth]]

*** Original post on bio 1995 at 2013-06-08 10:54:46 UTC ***

The workaround is to set
        network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http
        network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https
        network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ftp 
to true, then the next time you click on an http, https or ftp link, you will be presented with the "Launch Application" window. This adds the missing entries to mimetypes.rdf.

I suspect this happens when there is no default browser set for gnome (lubuntu uses lxde), but this has not been confirmed.