Thunderbird no longer viewing http URLs

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Miércoles, 23 de Febrero de 2005 06:52, Doug Barton escribió:
> I have a bit of a strange situation with my Thunderbird here. I can
> no longer click on a URL in a message and have it pop up firefox
> automatically. In fact, nothing pops up at all. The Help menu links
> in thunderbird don't work either, however other apps have no problem
> either opening a new firefox window, or opening content in an
> existing window if firefox has already been started.
>
> I tried just now recompiling and reinstalling just in case that would
> help, it didn't.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

You need repocopy 
files/patch-uriloader_exthandler_unix_nsGNOMERegistry.cpp from mozilla 
and rebuild. (You may need also this for firefox, it's a -core fix).

After that, thunderbird must use gnome settings to open external uris.

I don't remenber the thunderbird case but, at last for firefox, this 
makes 'registration as default browser' init dialog works

> Doug

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  josemi