Thunderbird no longer viewing http URLs

[Raaf]

Doug Barton wrote:
> 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?
> 
> Doug
> 
> 

Try adding the following lines to your prefs.js in your profile:

user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "firefox-remote");
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "firefox-remote");

Raaf